A Minnesota family rewrote “San Francisco” after ICE agents fatally shot two protesters, with the line “There comes a time, it will be beyond repair.”
In India, that time appears to be here already, writes @betwasharma.bsky.social
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"I had decided to construct the school on my private land so that my village can progress and some people can study."
Abdul Naeem spent about ₹20 lakh building a school for village children in Madhya Pradesh. What followed: Madrasa rumours and a demolition indianexpress.com/article/indi...
"We are being punished because of our identity. If the Supreme Court won’t spell it out, it serves no purpose"
3.5 years on, the petition against the demolition of her family home remains unheard. Afreen Fatima on documenting 53 more cases & why they won't stop article-14.com/post/her-hom...
5+ years in pre-trial detention
Fabrications, poor evidence & investigation —all ignored
Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam denied bail
By allowing endless punishment, the courts have enabled the government’s silencing of Muslim voices & ensuring no more emerge article-14.com/post/how-the...
"We are being punished because of our identity. If the Supreme Court won’t spell it out, it serves no purpose"
3.5 years on, the petition against the demolition of her family home remains unheard. Afreen Fatima on documenting 53 more cases & why they won't stop article-14.com/post/her-hom...
5+ years in pre-trial detention
Fabrications, poor evidence & investigation —all ignored
Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam denied bail
By allowing endless punishment, the courts have enabled the government’s silencing of Muslim voices & ensuring no more emerge article-14.com/post/how-the...
From 2019: "Muslims ask for their basic rights through the Constitution? Where does it say in the Constitution that Hindus can live w/o fear, but Muslims cannot?” Danish, Mohammad Akhlaq's son, who underwent 2 brain surgeries
"If I live in fear, that is no life. I want to live with a free heart"
"I was barred from walking on common land, accessing water and the community toilet"
Wife of a #Dalit Christian, whose corpse was ‘converted’ to #Hinduism, faced exclusion before burial in Odisha, a pattern of burial denial under the BJP Read our #fieldnotes article14.substack.com/p/field-note...
From 2019: "Muslims ask for their basic rights through the Constitution? Where does it say in the Constitution that Hindus can live w/o fear, but Muslims cannot?” Danish, Mohammad Akhlaq's son, who underwent 2 brain surgeries
"If I live in fear, that is no life. I want to live with a free heart"
"There was no time to say anything to them. I was thinking how can I save my face. I was thinking how can I stay alive."
Read Danish’s account of the brutal assault on him and his father, Mohammad Akhlaq, who was lynched by a Hindu mob on 28 September 2015. UP has moved to withdraw the case.
“Where is the justice?” “I feel as if something will break in our country and we will not be able to fix it.”
Danish said this in 2019, 3.5 years after a mob beat him senseless and lynched his father, Mohammad Akhlaq.
10 years on, UP moves to drop the murder case
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5–5.5 yrs jailed w/o trial – ignored
Bail pleas pending 3+ yrs – ignored
Appeal for parity – rejected
Prosecution's claims – accepted unchallenged
No evidence – unexamined
Read our report on why denying bail to Muslim activists defies law, facts & fairness www.article-14.com/post/how-the...
"very disturbing read"
"complete breakdown of criminal justice"
"Over 80 dates & more than 3.5 yrs of this matter pending"
Delhi HC order rejecting bail for Muslim activists, jailed for 5+ years w/o trial, was met with shock & horror @betwasharma.bsky.social reports
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5–5.5 yrs jailed w/o trial – ignored
Bail pleas pending 3+ yrs – ignored
Appeal for parity – rejected
Prosecution's claims – accepted unchallenged
No evidence – unexamined
Read our report on why denying bail to Muslim activists defies law, facts & fairness www.article-14.com/post/how-the...
The political prisoners India's justice system is letting languish for years in prison without bail or trial on behalf of the state.
🧵After 5 years in jail without a trial, Umar Khalid was today denied bail by the Delhi High Court in the Delhi riots case invoking terror charges
Revisit our reports that show how the case against him and the other anti-CAA activists denied bail today is without evidence and politically motivated
Our story on Suleman, lynched after he was seen talking to a Hindu girl, has struck a nerve, reaching hundreds of thousands of people. He was a kind, community-minded Muslim who called his Hindu friends "jaan"
Still, hate didn’t spare him. @betwasharma.bsky.social
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"He trusted them more than anyone"
Last week, we reported that Suleiman Pathan led Ganpati celebrations in his village in Maharashtra and cherished his friendships with Hindus. But some of those very friends were part of the mob that killed him. article-14.com/post/-in-a-m...
“Outrageous”
Despite Supreme Court directives for courts to expedite bail proceedings, Gulfisha Fatima’s bail plea in Delhi riots case was pending for 3 years. Fatima has spent 5+ years in jail without a trial. Her bail plea was heard thrice before 3 different benches article-14.com/post/activis...
Given that Sharjeel Imam was arrested as early as 28 Jan 2020, the police had little evidence tying him to the riots. Because of a few controversial lines in a speech he gave a month before the riots in a different state, Imam has spent 5+ years in jail without a trial article-14.com/post/in-viol...
The prosecution’s case against Umar Khalid stands on WhatsApp messages that he neither wrote nor were they sent to him, witnesses shown to be unreliable, a perfectly legal speech, and other far-fetched connections without any physical or forensic evidence article-14.com/post/how-the...
🧵After 5 years in jail without a trial, Umar Khalid was today denied bail by the Delhi High Court in the Delhi riots case invoking terror charges
Revisit our reports that show how the case against him and the other anti-CAA activists denied bail today is without evidence and politically motivated
Reminder: Over a month on, the Delhi High Court has yet to deliver its bail verdict (reserved on 9 July) for anti‑CAA activists—Umar Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Khalid Saifi & others—jailed for close to/more than 5 years without trial in a Delhi riots case
Reminder: Over a month on, the Delhi High Court has yet to deliver its bail verdict (reserved on 9 July) for anti‑CAA activists—Umar Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Khalid Saifi & others—jailed for close to/more than 5 years without trial in a Delhi riots case
The SC judgement goes against the constitutional value of compassion under Article 51A(g), the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, the doctrine of stare decisis “to stand by things decided”, the procedural fairness of audi alteram partem—“hear the other side” article-14.com/post/law-com...
Requesting help in spreading the word so that his thanks reached the Muslim duo who brought his son's body to the hospital amid the India-Pakistan conflict, Sanjeev Bhargav said, “I’d like to ask them to visit our home so we can thank them properly" #fieldnotes article14.substack.com/p/field-note...
Please take a moment to read this alarming and heart-wrenching story by @syed_affan__ about a Rohingya refugee who is currently facing the possibility of endless detention, even after the Patna High Court passed two orders for his release.
"the justice system is a joke"
"I feel suffocated"
Despite 2 Patna High Court orders to release, a Rohingya refugee jailed in Bihar for 7 years. @syed_affan__ reports this shocking case of judicial and bureaucratic negligence that could lead to indefinite detention article-14.com/post/despite...
"Many of us still choose to ignore that in 2025, Dalits are attacked for entering temples, riding an Enfield motorcycle, growing handlebar moustaches or loving a person of choice," @priyaramani.bsky.social writes in this week's edit note on censorship
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“Everything is the same as the first day. Nothing has changed"
Gulfisha Fatima's brother to @betwasharma.bsky.social as activist is jailed without trial for 5 yrs, bail plea in Delhi riots case pending before the Delhi High Court for 3 yrs in violation of SC orders
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