Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Anti-Muslim Pogrom Delhi 2020

“Custody like solitary confinement’: Umar Khalid tells court; court summons jail superintendent

Former JNU student leader and United Against Hate activist Umar Khalid, who is under custody in a UAPA case for an alleged conspiracy behind Delhi riots, told Delhi Court on Thursday about his custody in Tihar jail and said that the jail authorities were not allowing him to step out of his cell.

‘Witnesses seem to be planted one’, High Court grants bail to Tahir Hussain’s associate in Delhi riot case

The Delhi High Court on 7 October granted bail to one Irshad Ahmed, an alleged associate of Tahir Hussain, and observed that witnesses in the case seem to be planted one.

‘RSS people have come here in support’: Delhi pogrom chargesheet cites a Hindu rioter

In excerpts of chats of the WhatsApp group by Hindu rioters "Kattar Hindut Ekta", filed in a supplementary chargesheet before a Delhi court against nine accused of killing a Muslim, one of the members claimed that Hindu militant organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members had come to support them.

Ashoka University teachers, students demand release of Umar Khalid

The students, faculty, alumni, and staff of Ashoka University, strongly condemned the recent arrest of United Against Hate activist and former JNU student leader Umar Khalid made under the draconian UAPA and said in a statement that the arrest was based on false accusations. fake news and a conspiracy to clamp down upon dissent.

Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis among 200 personalities demand release of Umar Khalid and other anti-CAA activists

Calling it an act of " incarcerating democratic voices" more than 200 scholars, activists and artists around the globe penned a joint statement expressing solidarity with arrested anti-CAA activists including former JNU student leader and United Against Hate activist Umar Khalid.

Saving Kapil Mishra

The 24,584-page-long chargesheet, the Delhi Police Special Cell prepared into FIR 59 of the Northeast Delhi riot, terms the complaint against BJP leader Kapil Mishra as a "false narrative."