India must end 'inhumane' detention of rights activist: UN expert

Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, a former English professor at Delhi University and a long-standing defender of the rights of minorities in India who is bound to a wheelchair after suffering from a spinal disorder and polio as a child, was arrested in 2014.

The expert warns that Saibaba's health "has severely deteriorated in detention." / Photo: Reuters Archive

Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, raised the alarm on Monday about the nearly decade-long detention of Gokarakonda Naga"GN" Saibaba, a long-standing defender of the rights of minorities in India. "His continued detention is shameful. It bears all the hallmarks of a State seeking to silence a critical voice," she said.

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