New Delhi: A panel of concerned citizens has said that Sharjeel Imam, a prominent Jawaharlal Nehru University research scholar and a key figure of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) movement, completes six years in jail without parole and demanded his immediate release.
According to Global Mirror, Sharjeel Imam, now 36, was arrested after an intense online hate campaign and multiple FIRs filed by police in five Indian states for speeches he delivered during the country-wide protests against the CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The panelists, including Imam’s brother Muzammil Imam; advocates Nizamuddin Pasha and Adhmad Ibrahim, Sharjeel Imam’s legal counsel; senior journalists Saba Naqvi and Aditya Menon; JNUSU secretary Danish Ali; Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Kumar Jha; professors Nandita Narain and Apoorvanand; Karwan-e-Mohabbat founder Harsh Mander; Najmuddin, a family member of the incarcerated Athar Khan; and Mohammad Aamir Khan, who was 18 when he was allegedly framed in a terrorism case and later acquitted after 14 years, addressing a press conference in New Delhi, expressed distress and disappointment regarding the judicial process, characterising it as a system of inconsistent rulings where the conclusion of guilt often feels decided beforehand, much like the “Trial of the Knave” in Alice in Wonderland.
According to Global Mirror, Sharjeel Imam, now 36, was arrested after an intense online hate campaign and multiple FIRs filed by police in five Indian states for speeches he delivered during the country-wide protests against the CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The panelists, including Imam’s brother Muzammil Imam; advocates Nizamuddin Pasha and Adhmad Ibrahim, Sharjeel Imam’s legal counsel; senior journalists Saba Naqvi and Aditya Menon; JNUSU secretary Danish Ali; Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Kumar Jha; professors Nandita Narain and Apoorvanand; Karwan-e-Mohabbat founder Harsh Mander; Najmuddin, a family member of the incarcerated Athar Khan; and Mohammad Aamir Khan, who was 18 when he was allegedly framed in a terrorism case and later acquitted after 14 years, addressing a press conference in New Delhi, expressed distress and disappointment regarding the judicial process, characterising it as a system of inconsistent rulings where the conclusion of guilt often feels decided beforehand, much like the “Trial of the Knave” in Alice in Wonderland.