Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

Promi­nent hu­man rights at­tor­ney Sub­has Pan­day has con­demned the on­go­ing de­ten­tion of peo­ple for months with­out charges at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in Arou­ca, de­scrib­ing it as a “fla­grant breach of con­sti­tu­tion­al and hu­man rights”.

He was re­spond­ing to an ex­clu­sive Guardian Me­dia re­port that de­tainees held un­der the State of Emer­gency had be­gun a hunger strike on Oc­to­ber 28 af­ter be­ing held for months with­out any up­date on their in­ves­ti­ga­tions or if charges would be laid.