Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Anti-Muslim Pogrom Delhi 2020

No progress in probe into Faizan’s death; High Court issues notice to Delhi Police

The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued a notice to Delhi Police's Crime Branch in a plea filed by the mother of 23 year old Faizan who was brutally assaulted by policemen in uniform during the northeast Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom and succumbed to his injuries a few days later.

“Harassed and abused in jail”: Ishrat Jahan told Delhi court

Former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan, arrested under the draconian UAPA in a northeast Delhi riots case, told court in Delhi on Tuesday that she was beaten up by inmates at Mandoli jail and was continuously facing harassment in prison.

CPI(M) chastises Muslim protesters in its ‘fact-finding report’ on Delhi pogrom

A few weeks ago, CPI(M) released a fact-finding report of the February 2020, Delhi Pogrom (euphemised as Delhi “Violence”). The survey reads less like a fact-finding mission and more of a bragging report card of the party accompanied by subtle chastising of the Muslim protestors.

Amir’s newborn must get justice, says mother of slain brothers in northeast Delhi

Shabeena Amir in northeast Delhi’s Old Mustafabad was 4 months pregnant with her third child, as her husband Amir Ali's corpse was raised from the drainage. They were eagerly waiting for their newborn along with their two children, Alfisha who is 5, and 3-year-old Alisha.

Call for action by global academics over treatment of Muslims in India

On Human Rights Day 2020, more than 20 global academics have expressed their deep concern over the deterioration of the human rights situation in India, in particular the treatment of minority groups (especially Muslims) students, activists and journalists who are denied their constitutional right to dissent and protest peacefully.

Protesting farmers demand release of UAPA prisoners on human rights day

Under the leadership of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan), hundreds of protesting farmers used their platform on international human rights day to demand the release of several rights activists, students, Dalit, Muslim, Bahujan and left leaders booked under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.