India: Further information: Indian environmentalist released from jail

Index Number: ASA 20/041/2011
Date Published: 15 August 2011
Categories: India

Ramesh Agrawal, one of the two human rights defenders and environmental rights campaigners who has spent two months in the state of Chhattisgarh, was released on bail on the night of 12 August. He and Dr Harihar Patel had been arrested on false charges on 28 May.