Topic: UAPA
“I was never afraid”: Siddique Kappan walks out of jail after 851 days
More than 851 days after he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police while heading to the Hathras home of a young Dalit woman who was killed and gang-raped by upper-caste Hindu men, Kerala Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan walks out of jail.
Sharjeel Imam completes three years in prison
28 January 2023 will mark three years of incarceration of Sharjeel Imam, a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University a Muslim activist who was targeted by the Hindu nationalist BJP government for his disagreements and dissents over discriminatory citizenship acts.
Interview | “Plan to curtail civil society,” says Hany Babu’s wife Jenny Rowena
Jenny Rowena, the wife of jailed Delhi University professor Hany Babu, laments the situation of prisons in India and accuses that, as a society, we failed to have a social ethos that never undermines prisoners' rights.
He is in jail not for himself but for the nation: Umar Khalid’s mother
Jailed human rights activist Umar Khalid's mother, Dr Sabiha Khanum, recalls the anxious week she spend with her son who was home after getting an interim bail to attend his sister's marriage.
Wives of Khalid Saifi, Hany Babu, GN Saibaba demand release of ‘political prisoners’
Life partners of jailed human rights defenders Khalid Saifi, Hany Babu and GN Saibaba who gathered in national capital Delhi on Thursday under the banner of Campaign Against State Repression, demanded the immediate release of all political prisoners incarcerated under the Bhima Koregaon and CAA-NRC cases.
“New life,” says Kashmiri journalist released from jail after 14 months
After nine months in jail, Kashmiri photojournalist Mohd Manan Dar was allowed to stay with his brother, Hilal Ahmad Dar, who was until then lodged in another ward of New Delhi's Tihar jail. The brothers were arrested under terror charges in October 2021 in a militancy-related case probed by National Investigation Agency (NIA).
