More than 2500 people from across the country and world have issued the attached statement against the recent rejection of bail application of 84-year old Stan Swamy and appealed for his immediate bail. They have also appealed for repeal of UAPA, and a return to the norm where bail is the rule not the exception.
The signatories include several noted academics, activists, artists, film-makers, economists, jesuits, journalists, lawyers, retired bureaucrats and writers such as Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, Aloka Kujur, Alpa Shah, Anand Patwardhan, Anuradha Talwar, Apoorvanand, Aruna Roy, Ashish Kothari, Bela Bhatia, Bharat Bhushan Choudhary, Cedric Prakash, Dayamani Barla, Elina Horo, Farah Naqvi, Jayati Ghosh, Jean Dreze, John Dayal, Kavita Srivastava, Lalita Ramdas, Nandita Das, Nikhil Dey, Reetika Khera, Sridhar V, Sushanto Mukherji, Vasavi Kiro, Virginius Xaxa, Wajahat Habibullah, Yogendra Yadav and many more.
