Masud Ahmed, Jamia Millia Islamia student who was arrested while en route to Hathras in October 2020 along with journalist Siddique Kappan and a UAPA undertrial prisoner, has been granted bail in a case registered by ED.
A UP court in Mathura on 13 December, transferred the case registered against Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and seven others under draconian Sedition and UAPA in the alleged Hathras conspiracy case to a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Lucknow.
Briefing on the increasing human rights violations in India, several rights organisations based in America including Amnesty International conferenced a session with the families of Muslim political prisoners charged with draconian UAPA on Wednesday.
Kerala Journalist Siddique Kappan, Campus Front of India leaders and students Atiqur Rahman and Masud Ahmed, and a Delhi-based cab driver Mohammad Alam spent 365 days in jail for the crime never committed, alleges family members and colleagues of Hathras political prisoners on Tuesday.
Condemning the arrests of journalists and activists under draconian UAPA for demanding justice in the case of the brutal gangrape of the Dalit woman in Hathras, the Campaign Against State Repression demands the withdrawal of the case against them, the immediate release of Atikur Rahman, national treasurer of Campus Front of India (CFI), Masud Khan, CFI Delhi general secretary and senior journalist Siddique Kappan, secretary of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) Delhi unit and Alam, the car driver and action against the perpetrators of the horrific rape.