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On 13 December 2019, Delhi Police unleashed brute violence against students of Jamia Millia Islamia University for protesting against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law. Meeran Haider was absent when tear...

“I wish Khalid was here to see that his children are now old enough to fast in Ramadan," says Nargis Saifi, wife of the jailed Muslim activist, Khalid Saifi. Saifi and a dozen other Muslim activists booked under UAPA for the Delhi pogrom conspiracy case will be spending their Ramadan in Tihar jail.

The 23-year-old arrived in India more than a year ago to attend a congregation in Markaz, the headquarters of Tablighi Jama'at, which took place a week before India announced nationwide lockdown.

"Surreal to see tweets asking for beds/oxygen for a friend -- knowing that this time, the friend was me," wrote Delhi based writer, Narayani Basu on Twitter after she found help for her mother on internet.

Rows upon rows of books in Telugu literature decorate jailed professor GN Saibaba’s house in New Delhi. A house that he hasn’t lived in since he was convicted in 2017. His wife and daughter still live there and pass days hoping for a change of heart from authorities, a breakthrough in the case.

Seven year has passed by since a grant of 136 crore was sanctioned to set up Bihar’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) center in Kishanganj under Congress-led UPA government in 2013. But only 10 crore amount has been released so far, which threw the center in a debilitating situation.

On 5 March, research scholar, Natasha Narwal from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi turned 32. Narwal spent the day behind bars in the capital city of Delhi.

Their new classroom is The Kisan School, started by The Kisan Social Army in February, 2021. It aims to educate the children from a nearby slum. The Kisan School is a 15X15 tent erected by the protesting farmers at Tikri border. The flaps of the tent were decorated with colourful displays and charts that read alphabets and numbers. A few girls in the corner completed their homework while boys in the front revised the previous day’s classwork. One thing was in common- their bright smiles and will to learn.

A mob of around 400 people had scaled the boundary wall of the Gulberg society in the Chamanpura area of Ahmedabad and went into a killing spree in broad daylight with no intervention from police.

On 15 February 2021 Asmat Jamil, 46 year old Muslim woman leader in Kolkata, who was an important leader of the historic anti-CAA sit-in protest in Kolkata’s Park Circus Maidan, passed away peacefully at her residence located in Ripon Street, Kolkata. Her soul entered into eternel rest after courageously battling for life with cancer.

After a month behind bars, Nodeep Kaur, a 23-year-old Dalit labourer and trade union activist from Punjab, was granted bail on Wednesday in two FIRs out of three filed against her. With one remaining FIR, Nodeep's sister, Rajvir Kaur is hopeful after weeks of dismay.

On January 28, Mathura jail officials allowed a 10-minute video call for Siddique Kappan, a journalist booked under draconian UAPA, to see his 90-year-old ailing mother, Khadeeja Kutty. Although her son appeared on a small mobile screen, Khadeeja was not conscious to make a conversation. Due to dementia, she kept losing herself as time ran out merciless.