India: Further information on Fear for safety/ torture

Index Number: ASA 20/022/2006
Date Published: 3 September 2006
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, India

Human rights defenders Leitangthem Umakanta Meitei and Yengkokpam Langamba Meitei have both been accused of links with an illegal armed group. A Judicial Magistrate in Manipur has ordered that they be released on bail. However, both men have refused to pay their bail monies as they claim the charges against them are false.