UN pulls up India on British businessman Christian Michel detention

The United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), which ope­rates under the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has slammed India on the 27-month incarceration of British businessman Chri­stian Michel without prosecution. It has also asked the Narendra Modi government to immediately release him and provide an enforceable right to compensation in acc­o­rdance with international law.

Michel’s lawyers revealed WGAD recorded in its ‘Opinion No 88/2020’ that “the violations of the right to a fair trial and due process are of such gravity as to give Michel’s deprivation of liberty an arbitrary character”. 

It concluded India has contravened the Universal