Meet 10 ‘political prisoners’ of the Narendra Modi regime in jail without trial https://www.telegraphindia.com/gallery/meet-10-political-prisoners-of-the-narendra-modi-regime-in-jail-without-trial-photogallery/cid/2026467
the National Crime Records Bureau, in 2022, show that the number of undertrial inmates numbered 4,34,302 or 75.8 per cent of total prisoners.
Between 2016 and 2020, 24,134 individuals have been charged with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) alone, only 386 of whom have reportedly been acquitted.
1. Umar Khalid, for allegedly inciting people through his speeches before the Delhi riots that occurred in February 2020
2. Surendra Gadling, a lawyer and Dalit rights activist from Nagpur
3. Rona Wilson, an activist and public relations secretary of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners,accused of inciting caste-based violence through speeches, and having Maoist connections.
4. Jyoti Jagtap, a Dalit and Adivasi rights activist and member of the Kabir Kala Manch cultural group,
5. Hany Babu, a professor of linguistics at Delhi University,, facing allegations of having links with Maoist organisations and inciting caste-based violence.
6. Sagar Gorkhe,e has been detained under various sections of the IPC and the UAPA, facing allegations of having links with Maoist organisations
7. Mahesh Raut, a land rights activist and former Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow, for alleged links with Maoist organisations and inciting caste-based violence.
8. Ramesh Gaichor, a Dalit rights activist and yet another member of the Kabir Kala Manch cultural group,
9. Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist and former editor of the ‘Kashmir Narrator magazine’, charges including "complicity" and "waging war against the state" in Kashmir.
10. Khurram Parvez, a Kashmiri human rights activist and chairperson of the Asian Federation Against is accused of funding terrorism and conspiring against the state,
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