Topic: UP police
A cab driver from India’s capital who went to jail because he is Muslim
Mohammad Alam was arrested in October 2020 along with three others- journalist Siddique Kappan, Campus Front of India (CFI) office-bearers Atiqur Rahman and Masood Ahmad while they were on their way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the rape and killing of a Dalit woman which had triggered nationwide outrage and visit the family members of deceased.
UP: Arrests of Muslim scholars violate their constitutional rights, alleges Muslim body
All India Da'wah Centres Association has said that the recent arrests of two Muslim scholars Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Quazi Jahangeer Quasmi by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh under draconian anti-conversion law, violated the duo's constitutional rights at every stage.
UP Police’s ATS arrests two Muslim scholars under state’s new anti-conversion law
The Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested Muslim clerics Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam from South Delhi's Jamia Nagar on Monday under the draconian anti-conversion law.
Global journalists’ body calls for release of Siddique Kappan
The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organisation that promotes press freedom worldwide, welcomed the decision by a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district to drop a breach of peace charge against Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, and urged authorities to drop all other charges against him and release him immediately.
“Justice is being delayed” Siddique Kappan speaks to media for first time since arrest
“I want justice. I still believe in our Constitution, but justice is being delayed. This is a completely fake case,” said Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan as he was escorted out of a Mathura court in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.
“No FIRs can curtail my right to speak against state-orchestrated tyranny,” Maskoor Usmani responds to Ghaziabad Police FIR
Speaking about the FIR registered against him along with other Congress politicians, journalist and social media giant Twitter by Ghaziabad Police over tweets in connection to the assault on an elderly Muslim man, Congress leader Maskoor Usmani said that no FIRs can curtail his right to speak against the "state-orchestrated tyranny being faced by any individual on the basis of caste, creed, community, and culture".
