India: Akhil Gogoi bail plea rejected after over a year pre-detention (Update)
Event- Country
- India
- Initial Date
- Jan 7, 2021
- Event Description
On 7 January 2021, the Guwahati High Court rejected the bail plea of human rights defender, Akhil Gogoi. The defender has been in jail since 12 December 2019, in connection with a case relating to the Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests, filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Since his initial arrest, multiple First Informations Reports have been booked against him, all relating to the anti CAA protests, with charges including sedition. While in detention, in July 2020, Akhil Gogoi tested positive for COVID-19 and was moved to a hospital for immediate care.
A special NIA court had previously granted bail to Akhil Gogoi in one of the cases being probed by the NIA. Currently, the defender is being detained at the Guwahati Central Jail.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Denial Fair Trial
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to fair trial
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- RTI activist
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 26.178884035690494
Longitude: 91.72641063211316
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 7 January 2021, Akhil Gogoi, community-based RTI defender, was rejected the bail plea after over a year spent in pre-trial detention by he High Court in Guwahati, India.
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