Stan Swamy, S.J., in the hospital (Courtesy of Radio Veritas Asia)
Stan Swamy, S.J., has tested positive for Covid-19, two weeks after the Jesuits in India suspected that he had been infected with the coronavirus and appealed to the court to grant the octogenarian priest temporary release on bail so that he could receive urgent medical treatment. The priest, who for four decades defended the rights of India’s most impoverished and outcast people, has been languishing in a Mumbai prison on allegedly trumped-up charges of sedition since October.
On May 21, Father Swamy refused the apparent willingness of the judges to move him to a hospital of his choosing for medical care, saying that he would rather die in prison than be moved to a hospital. He insisted that he instead be released on bail and allowed to return to his home at Bagaicha, the Jesuit social action center in Ranchi, Jharkhand, about 1,000 miles from Mumbai. Mihir Desai, his senior advocate, requested an adjournment so
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