Jammu, Jan. 24 -- "Teesta Setalvad said, we also have a list of 23 very young and dynamic human rights defenders incarcerated in post-February 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi"
A United Nations human rights official has called upon the Government of India (GoI) to "immediately release" 16 human rights defenders who have been imprisoned on charges of terrorism in the Bhima-Koregaon Case, insisting, "These people should not be in jail. They are our modern-day heroes and we should all be looking to them and supporting them and demanding their release."
Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, was speaking at the virtual launch of the report "Crushing Dissent: 2021 Status Report on Human Rights in India" ...