Topic: Anti-Muslim Pogrom Delhi 2020

The Culture Workers’ Support Trust (CWST), a charitable organization that works among culture workers has condemned the "harassment of members of the creative community" who they said are being targeted for exercising their democratic right to raise their voice against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and "state-sponsored brutality during the anti-CAA protests."

Students got calls every time from the police for interrogation, academic deadlines were very closer. Many of us were not bothered about the deadlines. Asif was very much sure of being arrested, I remember his friends sharing an incident a day before he got arrested. Asif painfully remembered his brother Meeran Haider being arrested and he was asked his friends to console and give strength to Meeran's family. Surveillance, interrogation nothing could take him away from his political activism.

The trial court in Karkardooma granted bail to Narwal in Jaffrabad riots case. Narwal, however, will not be released from jail as she is yet to secure bail in a case under UAPA.

Congress Party Treasurer and MP Ahmed Patel, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, DMK leader & MP Kanimozhi, RJD leader and MP Manoj Jha, and CPI General Secretary D Raja met the President of India Ram Nath Kovin on Thursday and handed over a memorandum raising questions about the role of the police during the northeast Delhi riots, besides expressing their lack of confidence in the probe of the incident.

During the hearing on petitions seeking registration of FIRs and independent inquiry for northeast Delhi violence, Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves said to the Delhi High Court that delay caused in taking up these matters for arguments is emboldening the police to make illegal arrests.

Those present at the gathering, including Umar Khalid’s mother Sabiha Khanum and arrested United Against Hate activist Khalid Saifi's wife Nargis Saifi, wore masks with faces of arrested student activists.