Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: UAPA

Shoma Sen, Sudha Bharadwaj facing serious danger to lives in prison: Family and friends

Three women political prisoners, Shoma Sen, Sudha Bharadwaj, and Jyoti Jagtap who were all languishing in the women’s prison of Byculla jail under draconian UAPA in the Bhima Koregaon case for the past three years without trial and bail, are now facing serious danger to their lives as inmates found COVID-19 positive, friends and family members of prisoners allege.

One year in jail; eminent people demand Umar Khalid’s release

Human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists came together on Monday to demand the release of young activist Umar Khalid, claiming that he is under "unjust imprisonment" for one year.

UAPA case: J&K Police raid residences of four journalists, detain for a day

Four Kashmir-based journalists were raided on Wednesday and later detained at a police station in Srinagar in a one year old case under draconian UAPA.

Bhima Koregaon: Rona Wilson granted 14 days bail for father’s last rites

Rona Wilson, prison rights activist and one of the 16 accused in the 2018 Bhima Koergaon case, has been granted temporary bail by NIA Court to attend a function slated to be organised in connection with his father's death.

UAPA against Geelani’s relatives for wrapping body in Pakistan flag

Jammu and Kashmir police has initiated a case under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), against family members of deceased Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for raising anti-India slogans and wrapping the body in a Pakistani flag.

” Heavily fabricated”, Umar Khalid in Delhi court

Alleging of filing false charge sheet on a northeast Delhi violence case under the UAPA against young activist Umar Khalid, his lawyer told a Delhi court on Friday that, “it is the officer who drafted the report and officer's mind was communal”.