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    Question

    Who among the following has/have been honored with

    “special, posthumous homage” at the Martin Ennals Award in Geneva?
    A Daouda Diallo Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Pham Doan Trang Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Father Stan Swamy Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E All of the above Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Father Stan Swamy, the Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist from Jharkhand will get a “special, posthumous homage” at the Martin Ennals Award in Geneva. He was arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case and died in July 2021. The award is widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for human rights defenders. The winners this year are Daouda Diallo from Burkina Faso, Pham Doan Trang from Vietnam and Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja of Bahrain. Swamy had spent a lifetime working with Adivasi communities on their land, forest and labour rights.

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