Topic: Anti CAA protest
Union government likely to notify CAA rules today: Report
The Union government is likely to notify the rules for the much-criticised Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) today, various news agencies reported.
“His speeches were so powerful…”: Delhi court says while denying bail to Sharjeel Imam
A Delhi court on Saturday denied bail to Muslim activist and JNU research scholar Sharjeel Imam in connection with the 2020 Delhi pogrom case involving allegations of sedition, noting that “although the applicant did not ask anybody to pick weapons and kill the people but his speeches and activities mobilised the public which disrupted the city and might be the main reason in outbreak of the riots.”
Umar Khalid withdraws bail plea in Delhi pogrom case after 14 adjournments by Supreme Court since October 2022
Jailed rights activist Umar Khalid on Wednesday withdrew his bail application from the Supreme Court in connection with the 2020 Delhi pogrom case, citing “change in circumstance.”
Four years of wrongful incarceration: Remembering Sharjeel Imam as an act of memory resistance
Sharjeel Imam’s politics was no-nonsense, action-oriented, and pointedly disruptive of existing political power hierarchies that sought to disenfranchise Muslims politically and socially
Jamia Millia Islamia students commemorate 2019 Police violence against anti-CAA protest
On Friday, December 15, at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, hundreds of students assembled to commemorate the police violence against students protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act and other discriminatory citizenship policies on the same day in 2019.
Half of maximum sentence under UAPA is complete, says undertrial prisoner Sharjeel Imam
Sharjeel Imam, who has been incarcerated since January 28, 2020 under the stringent UAPA and sedition charges, among others, in relation to his speeches against CAA and NRC, has petitioned a Delhi Court for statutory bail, citing that he has served half of the maximum seven-year sentence for his alleged offenses.
