Father Stan Swamy, who passed away last year, will posthumously be honoured at the 2022 Martin Ennals Awards in Geneva today. The award is widely considered as the Nobel Prize equivalent for human rights defenders.

Father Stan Swamy, better known as Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist from Jharkhand, was arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case and died in July 2021. Before his death, Stan Swamy had spent his life working with Adivasi communities on their land, forest, and labour rights.