• Titto Varghese
• Akhila Joseph

Throughout human history we can have glimpses of human rights movements whenever and wherever there were denial of basic rights of human beings. India witnessed many such protests both online and offline. Stan Swamy was a Jesuit priest who worked in the remotest villages of North India for the social uplift of the downtrodden by educating them. He was an activist living with the people of the locality and was voicing for their rights when the corporates tried for illegal land grabbing. He was arrested on 7 October 2020 as being accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence case. He was taken to jail and was not given decent food or medical care even though he was 84. This paper is an attempt to understand and analyze how the mainstream Malayalam news channels approach this issue and how the experts and the general public responded to it. Content analysis was conducted on the news hour debates in three leading Malayalam news channels based on their popularity measured by the number of views. The content of the debate including the questions of the news anchor and answers by the experts along with the comments made by general public in the YouTube channels of these news channels were analyzed and thematically classified. Analysis reveals that there is purposeful silencing happening against all those who are a threat to the rulers.

Human Rights, Protest Movements, Purposeful Silencing, State Sponsored Terrorism

"HUMAN RIGHTS & INDIAN JUDICIARY: IMPLICATIONS FROM STAN SWAMY’S DEATH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no.f210-f217, January-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401525.pdf

"HUMAN RIGHTS & INDIAN JUDICIARY: IMPLICATIONS FROM STAN SWAMY’S DEATH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no. ppf210-f217, January-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401525.pdf