IndiaNewsWatchA ‘Dehumanising’ Year, Says Afreen Fatima, As She Fights Cases Being Heaped On Her Father, A UP Social Activist
365 days after the Uttar Pradesh police arrested social activist Javed Mohammad, his daughter Afreen Fatima spoke of their “trauma-filled, grief-filled year”, where the BJP government has filed eight cases that kept him in jail while his father and sister passed away. As they suffer the realities of the adage that defines India’s criminal justice system—the process is the punishment—Fatima said the urgency of getting her father out of jail increases every day.
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