Watch | Citizens' Group Demands Release of Umar Khalid
The scholar and activist has been jailed for year.
Mukul Singh Chauhan
Sep 15 2021
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Several eminent personalities gathered at the Press Club of India to protest against scholar and activist Umar Khalid's incarceration on Monday, September 13 – the day his imprisonment crossed the one-year mark.
Umar Khalid is a vocal activist against the CAA and NRC, was called for questioning by the Special Branch of Delhi Police a year ago and arrested in connection with the communal riots in North East Delhi.
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