The death of Fr Stan Swamy evokes pain and anger in India and abroad. The arrest of the 84-year-old Activist of the NIA, its nine-month-old incarceration in Talario prison, where he hired Covid-19, alleged the lack of timely medical care and the repeated denial of bail, all came to The criticism The EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore Tweeted: "India: It saddens me to hear that Father #Stanswamy has died. A defender of the rights of indigenous peoples. He was held detained during the last 9 months. The EU had been State by raising your case repeatedly with the authorities ".
Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, wrote: "The #india news today is devastating. The defender of Human Rights and the Jesuit Priest Fr Swamy died in custody, nine months after his Arrest for false charges of terrorism. The HRD of the incarceration is inexcusable. "
The Internet buzzed from condemnation by human rights activists, from the leader of the Congress, Rahul Gandhi, who said: "Fr Stan deserved justice and humanity" median, activists, NGOs and citizens.
The state of origin of Jharkhand of the Fr Stan led by the main minister, Hemant Soren and the Churches of Ranchi and Jamshedpur, everything achieved his loss.
The cardinal of Oswald Thank you, head of the Catholic Church in India and the Archbishop of Bombay, became personally familiar with FR Stan's work in tribal interior. He said: "The arrest of FR Stan was very painful. Under the criminal law of India, one is innocent until it is guilty. The case of FR Stan did not even think of hearing, we were anxiously waiting for the case of being taken and The truth to get out ... Fr Stan worked tirelessly for the disadvantaged and Downtodden. I preserved his dedication to the exploited tribals. I hope the truth comes out soon and its name will erase all the criminal conspiracy. "
His community of Jesuit priests, in particular, cried the loss of him. Father Errol Fernandes said he was "now free of all terrestrial prisons", while the FR Vincent Vaz described it as the "tribal mahatma".
Hours before his death came to light, the Union Popular for Democratic Rights (PUDR), an organization of civil liberties based in Delhi, had written an open letter to justice justice of the Superior Court of Bombay to end the imprisonment.