New Delhi: Former Attorney General of India, Soli Sorabjee handed away on Friday (April 30) on the age of 91 years.
According to information company PTI, his family mentioned he handed away due to the COVID-19 virus.
Sorabjee was a famend human rights lawyer. He was appointed by the United Nations (UN) as a Special Rapporteur for Nigeria, in 1997. Though this he reported on the human rights state of affairs in that nation.
Soli Sorabjee had served because the Attorney General for India from 1989-90 after which from 1998-2004.
He was admitted to a personal hospital in South Delhi after getting contaminated with COVID-19.
Sorabjee was additionally concerned in lots of circumstances for defending the liberty of speech and expression and has been instrumental in revoking censorship orders and bans on publications.
His publications on this topic embody: The Laws of Press Censorship in India (1976); The Emergency, Censorship and the Press in India, 1975-77 (1977).
