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It has been 1078 days since the movement against CAA began in India; it has been 1000 days since Sharjeel Imam has been in...

23 October 2022 will mark 1000 days of incarceration of Sharjeel Imam, a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University and one of the country’s rights defenders who were targeted by the Hindu nationalist BJP government for their disagreements and dissents.

A Delhi Court on Friday granted bail to Muslim student activist Sharjeel Imam in a sedition case which accuses him of delivering a “provocative speech” against Citizesnship Amendment Act (CAA) in 2019.

A Delhi court on Thursday directed the prison authorities to produce CCTV camera footage after Muslim student and anti-CAA leader Sharjeel Imam said that the Tihar Jail assistant superintendent and others had assaulted him inside his cell.

Jawaharlal Nehru University student and Muslim activist Sharjeel Imam, who is in jail under draconian UAPA, Monday alleged that he was assaulted by convicts at Tihar Jail and called a terrorist during a search inside his cell on 30 June.

When Khalid’s and Kalita’s cases are based on the presumed guilt of Sharjeel Imam, it makes their innocence mutually exclusive to that of Imam’s. They must first and foremost establish Imam as communal, then prove themselves as opposed to Imam and thereby prove their dissociation from communalism itself.