“I (Stan Swamy) am one of the ‘suspects,’ I was also raided on 28th August 2018, even after more than four months Pune police have not made any charges, and when I appealed to Bombay HC [No.4741 of 2018] to quash the FIR against me my petition was rejected. Instead it authorized Pune police to continue its investigation on me, without prescribing any time frame, to see if I have committed any offence under UAPA and if needed take strong legal action. Really an open-ended offer to the police! Several of the accused have refuted the charges against them. But the court seems to go by police’s version with scant regard to what petitioners are saying.
This is an appeal to all democratic minded individuals, groups, organizations, movements, ordinary citizens who are genuinely concerned about the steadily deteriorating human rights situation in our country and to raise their voice against it.”

Stan Swamy –
in COUNTERCURRENTS.ORG,
January 26, 2019