Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Afreen Fatima

Govt says neighbors’ complaint led to Afreen’s house demolition, locals say “don’t know neighbors”

In response to a petition from the family of prominent Muslim activists Javed Mohammad and Afreen Fatima challenging the demolition of their house in Allahabad, the Uttar Pradesh government informed the Allahabad High Court that the action was taken as a result of complaints from residents regarding "illegal construction" and its "misuse."

Allahabad HC hears plea of Afreen Fatima’s mother against demolition

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday took up a petition challenging the demolition of a house belonging to the family of prominent Muslim activists Javed Mohammad and Afreen Fatima.

Violence of demolition, politics of precarity

While the debate becomes whether the property was in fact legal or not, the state rationality— the bulldozing of a house of an activist/protestor on charges that it is “illegal”, is rendered normal and legally unsuspected.

Global body condemns reprisals against Afreen Fatima and her family

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a global body in an official statement, strongly condemned “the arbitrary demolition of Afreen Fatima’s house, as well as the arbitrary detention of her mother and sister and the ongoing arbitrary detention and criminalisation of her father, Javed Mohammad.”

Student leaders call recent demolitions, arrests, killings “political vendetta against Muslim protesters”

Prominent Muslim student leader Afreen Fatima, whose family house in Allahabad was bulldozed following her father Javed Mohammed’s arrest in connection with a protest against Islamophobic remarks in the city, and other student leaders Thursday urged the authorities to stop political vendetta against Muslim protesters.

Due process must be followed, says SC on UP demolitions

Observing that “due process must be followed while carrying out demolitions of illegal constructions”, the Supreme Court on Thursday sought the response of the Uttar Pradesh government on Jamiat-Ulama-I-Hind’s plea against the demolition of Muslims in the state.