The 70-year-old rights activist was released from prison after two years. A police team took him to a building in the Belapur-Agroli area of Navi Mumbai where he will be staying

Fr. Stan Swamy died in a hospital shortly before his application for medical bail was to be heard. He had already been denied bail and his health had deteriorated since October when he was imprisoned

The letter by prominent human rights organizations comes days after reports emerged of the appalling conditions in the quarantine facility in the State of Maharashtra in which activist Gautam Navlakha is currently lodged in