Topic: Fabricated Police stories

As the country celebrates its 74th Independence Day, the Government of India must stop criminalising dissent and immediately release all the young peaceful protesters who are being subjected to intimidation, harassment and arrests for their participation in anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests, said Amnesty International India on the eve of the launch of its ‘Right To Dissent’ Campaign on Friday.

Over 200 of the world’s most prominent artists, along with nearly two dozen leading human rights groups and film organizations, are calling for the immediate release of Sanaa Seif, a film editor arrested in Cairo last month.

More than 340 students of Delhi University professor MT Hany Babu on Friday released a statement in solidarity with the jailed professor and activist and said the NIA's warrant against him was a "direct attack on education, activists and the academic space at large".

The Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr. G N Saibaba has strongly condemned the arrest of Dr. Hany Babu M. T., a well-known scholar, social activist and teacher with the Department of English, University of Delhi, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Mumbai in connection with the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case.

Award-winning author Arundhati Roy on Wednesday slammed the BJP government for the “relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers”, a day after Hany Babu, an associate professor of the Delhi University and a noted anti-caste activist was arrested by the NIA in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case.

Zakariya is one among the thousands in Parapanna Agrahara Jail, spread over 40 hectares of land and filled with twice the capacity, who is awaiting judiciary to show mercy in fastening their cases.