Topic: Anti-Muslim Pogrom Delhi 2020

Over 50 eminent international figures including members of several European parliaments academics, lawyers, Nobel laureates, civil society leaders, and diasporic organisations have signed a joint statement urging the Indian government to show compassion and responsibility in the current Covid emergency, and call upon the authorities to release all arrested human rights defenders into safe conditions in the light of the dire threats to their health given the spread of Covid in Indian prisons.

I am a young lawyer having recently joined the profession, is in the process of understanding the depth of law, the decorum of courts and nuances of litigation. However, one thing I have clarity about—or you may say I have been made to have clarity about—my identity. I am a Muslim—a visible Muslim.

The Delhi High Court has granted interim bail to Jamia Millia Islamia student leader Asif Iqbal Tanha, accused in the Delhi pogrom conspiracy case, to appear for his three remaining backlog BA examinations papers.

“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.

A Delhi Court on Thursday granted bail to United Against Hate activist Umar Khalid in Khajuri Khas violence case connected to Delhi pogrom.

A Delhi court granted bail to Shah Alam, a Muslim youth accused in a case related to the northeast Delhi violence of 2020 while raising serious doubts on the testimonies of police witnesses as the complainant had not called the police on the day of the incident.