‘Release Political Prisoners’: The Quint Reads Umar Khalid’s Letter From Tihar Jail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrYTpeGjfNg
On Anxiety, Family And Bail: Umar Khalid Writes From Tihar Jail https://www.thequint.com/news/india/umar-khalid-letter-from-tihar-jail-covid-natasha-narwal-bail
Speaking about the harshness of the anti-terror law, he says, “As a law, the UAPA makes a mockery of the Supreme Court’s observation that bail is the rule and jail an exception. For all effective purposes, the UAPA turns this principle on its head by requiring an accused person to prove their innocence and thereby proceeding on a presumption of guilt, even in order to grant bail. That too, without the benefit of a trial.
He goes on to talk about how 16 of those arrested under the conspiracy FIR 59 over the NE Delhi violence have got no chance to prove their innocence since the last 14 months. The trial has not begun and the “pandemic will only further delay the proceedings”.