Delhi HC called Umar Khalid’s Amravati speech “inflammatory.”
Watch that full 19 min speech:
He spoke of Gandhi,
called out RSS cowardice,
praised the Shaheen Bagh Dadis, and said:
“If they spread hate, we’ll respond with love.”
That’s inflammatory? 👎🏾
'The New York Times' does what
no Godi Media outlet in India has the courage and will to do .
To devote a full page to the inhuman 4 years of incarceration of a bright, young PhD from JNU Umar Khalid.
One of the worst judicial injustices in recent times, now perpetuated for indefinitely longer.
The cases against these people are built on foundations of smoke; to justify their imprisonment without trial for 5+ years, on each occasion, court judgments lack all reason. See:👇
One of the worst judicial injustices in recent times, now perpetuated for indefinitely longer.
The cases against these people are built on foundations of smoke; to justify their imprisonment without trial for 5+ years, on each occasion, court judgments lack all reason. See:👇
1,800+ days in jail without trial. Bail is the rule as per Supreme Court, but not people like Umar Khalid.
Umar Khalid has never given a hate speech. He's always talked about unity.
This is a good way to remind SoBo elite that the Britishers left in 1947 and we are in 2025. There are people still not as rich and civilized as them and they deserve to be heard too, irrespective of civic sense. And I'm not referring to us Bandra folks. 😂
Last month, 13 men accused in 2006 Mumbai train blasts were acquitted.
One of them was Kamal Ansari. He spent 16 years in jail before he died in prison during Covid.
Ansari's friends & family visited his grave and read out the court judgement that declared his innocence
While the King & his courtiers push Muslims into de facto 2nd-class status-
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What if Mumbai protested for pothole free roads, hoardings that don't collapse, local trains safety, etc? Matlab we face enough problems daily but are silent. Now we see protestors who don't want to be silent and Mumbai is upset. Oh Spirit of Mumbai is to be silent? Lol ok.
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