Prominent Muslim student activist Afreen Fatima on Human Rights Day took to Twitter to raise her concerns about her jailed father Javed Mohammad, a Muslim activist in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad.
“It has been 6 months since the unjust incarceration of Abbu. I can write about how brave he has been, anecdotes from his life. But none of it matters for we live in a state that is cruel and vicious. All that matters is that it’s been 6 months and counting,” read Afreen’s tweet on Human Rights Day.
Afreen’s father Mohammad Javed was arrested and their family house was bulldozed by the authorities in Uttar Pradesh, as an “act of vendetta” by the government for the protests over comments made against Prophet Muhammad by BJP leaders.
“Clearly, this is unjust. Muslims and other dissenters are being subjected to un-freedom and imprisonment simply bcz they resist ethnic, anti-Muslims policy & ideology of supremacist Hindutva masquerading as democracy,” reacting to Afreen’s tweet, prominent political anthropologist Irfan Ahmad said.
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