Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Umar Khalid

“Missing you Umar”: Jailed activist’s father as his son spends fourth Eid in jail

“Missing you Umar,” wrote Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, India’s one of the leading Muslim intellectuals on Twitter a day before Eid al-Adha as his son and prominent human rights defender Umar Khalid spends another Eid in jail under draconian charges.

Only evidence against Umar Khalid is “exercising constitutional right” :Noam Chomsky

The only credible evidence against jailed activist Umar Khalid that has been presented is that he was exercising his constitutional right to speak and to protest, a fundamental prerogative of citizenship in a free society, said world renowned intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky.

“He just continues smiling”: Umar Khalid’s parents

In a recent court hearing, student activist Umar Khalid, who was arrested on September 13, 2020, in a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)...

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.

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."

Denying bail to Umar Khalid a ‘big blow’ to right to peaceful protest: Amnesty India

Amnesty International India on Thursday said that denying bail to activist Umar Khalid was a "big blow" to the right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest.