ICC Note:
Following hours of interrogation from both police and local Hindus, Pastor KA Swamy suffered a brain hemorrhage leaving half of his body paralyzed and in the ICU. The incident started when Pastor Swamy was confronted by local Hindus for distributing Bibles near a Hindu temple in the city of Hyderabad. The Hindus accused Pastor Swamy of attempting to forcefully convert people to Christianity and brought him to a police station where he was interrogated by police. After hours of interrogation, Pastor Swamy was released and then suffered a brain hemorrhage. Christian evangelists are often harassed in India and falsely accused of forced conversions by Hindu radicals. 
01/25/2017 India (Christian Today) – An Indian Christian is in a coma from suffering a brain hemorrhage hours after he was interrogated by police.
KA Swamy, 47, was taken to the police station after he handed out Bibles and other Christian literature near a Hindu temple, according to World Watch Monitor. Angry Hindu nationalists accused him evangelizing in the temple area and looked to prosecute him under “anti-conversion laws”.
After six hours of interrogation he was eventually released by police but suffered a brain hemorrhage on his way home.
His brother-in-law told the persecution watchdog it was not the first time he had been arrested for preaching the gospel.
“”Several times in the past also he has been caught by extremists from Vishwa Hindu Parishad [a Hindu nationalist group] and has been threatened. He has also been taken to the police station for verification many times before. This time he just couldn’t take it.”
He added: “They told me that they have over 200 photos of him distributing Bibles and tracts; these are the evidences of his converting people and that he was guilty.”
Several Indian states have so-called ‘Freedom of Religion Acts’ which officially prevent religious conversions being made by ‘force’, ‘fraud’ or ‘allurement’. But Christians and rights groups say in reality the laws are in reality ‘anti-conversion laws’.
They claim Hindu nationalists use them to harass, arrest and imprison Christians.
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