India: Further information: Protest leader released on bail: Abhay Sahoo

Index Number: ASA 20/013/2012
Date Published: 5 April 2012
Categories: India

Abhay Sahoo has been released on bail after spending more than three months in prison. He has led a seven-year campaign against the seizure of common lands used by local farmers, for a $12 billion plant of South Korean multinational steel company POSCO. He is still facing false charges.