“The tragedy of Father Stan Swamy is his human rights were violated while all he was attempting to do was protect the human rights of Adivasis suffering from poverty and neglect,” senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday.
The MP from Thiruvananthapuram was talking at the Father Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture on, ‘Are Human Rights Universal?’
Two years ago, on October 8, the late Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from his home in Bagaicha at Ranchi, which has a library and a computer room for tribals. He was charged under several Sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in the Bhima Koregaon caste violence case.
