Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: UAPA

Haemolymph: Movie portrays Muslim teacher crushed by Indian state

An industry which parroted the state narrative of Muslim being the terrorists dared to tell the story of an innocent Muslim teacher Wahid Shaikh who was falsely implicated in 7/11 Mumbai train blast and spent almost nine years in jail to satisfy the ‘collective conscience’ of the state. Haemolymph movie, directed by Sudarshan Gamare, got released in more than 120 theatres across India in its initial phase. 

The scapegoating of Sharjeel Imam

When Khalid’s and Kalita’s cases are based on the presumed guilt of Sharjeel Imam, it makes their innocence mutually exclusive to that of Imam’s. They must first and foremost establish Imam as communal, then prove themselves as opposed to Imam and thereby prove their dissociation from communalism itself.

Sharjeel Imam moves Delhi Court for bail, seeks benefit of SC’s sedition order

Student leader Sharjeel Imam has moved Delhi's Karkardooma Court seeking interim bail in an FIR against him involving the offence of Sedition in view of recent Supreme Court order wherein the sedition law has been kept in abeyance till the Union Government reconsiders the provision, Live Law reported.

Protests over Yasin Malik’s sentencing: 10 arrested under UAPA in Kashmir

Ten persons have been arrested under the draconian Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act on Thursday after they staged protests against NIA court's sentencing of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik.

Anti-CAA protest was against ‘unjust law’: Umar Khalid tells Delhi HC

Jailed human rights activist activist Umar Khalid on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) did not instil fear and insecurity among the people and the court should not "fall into the trap of interpreting everything as terror."

Assam: UAPA against wife, daughter for protesting Muslim man’s death in custody

Two days after a fish trader Safiqul Islam died in police custody in Assam, the cops arrested his wife, Rashida Khatun, and his daughter, a Class 8 student.