: Stan Swamy is dead. How did putting this 84-year-old Parkinson’s patient in jail serve justice? #IndiaNEWS Stan Swamy, an activist who spent much of his life fighting for the rights of the marginalised

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Stan Swamy is dead. How did putting this 84-year-old Parkinson’s patient in jail serve justice? #IndiaNEWS
Stan Swamy, an activist who spent much of his life fighting for the rights of the marginalised and dispossessed, is dead. Swamy was 84, and suffered from Parkinson’s disease. But this malady cannot be singularly blamed for the deterioration in his health over the last year. Instead, the blame lies squarely with the Indian state. That is because the octogenerian human rights worker was put in jail by the National Investigation Agency in October 2020, as an accused in the controversial Bhima Koregaon case for which the police has so far presented almost no reliable evidence and shown little interest in actually beginning the trial. The NIA – and the judges overseeing the case – proceeded to keep Swamy in jail for eight months, despite the clear impact it had on his health. In November 2020, it emerged that Swamy had to wait weeks to just get access to warm clothes and a sipper with a straw, even though he had difficulty holding a glass because of his disease. Swamy was repeatedly denied bail, despite his age, limited mobility and absence of criminal history. The toll this took on his health was impossible to ignore. Swamy fell and injured himself several times while in jail. As Swamy told judges of the Bombay...Read more

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