UAPA

Kappan and three others were arrested at a toll plaza in Mathura on October 5, 2020, when he was on his way to Hathras. According to the first information report filed by the UP police on October 7, Kappan has been charged under sections 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity) and 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings), in addition to provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology Act. 

Chargesheet The entire chargesheet – a copy of which hasn’t been given to all the three defence lawyers in the case – is split into 21 booklets. The pages with screenshots from the accused’s social media are in part 15. There is no daily diary note accompanying the 12 pages of screenshots, so it’s not clear why the UP STF included tweets by CFI’s general secretary Rouf Sharif, former editor of the newspaper Thejas Daily P Koya, and PFI member Masood Ahmed.   The UP STF has not explained how tweets criticising the RSS, which is closely affiliated to the BJP, may be considered incriminatory or evidence of a conspiracy....

Investigative agencies are within their rights to show selected social media posts, but there is no clarity as to what the UP STF intends to establish with the screenshots that it has included in its chargesheet.

Krishnesh Bapat, CCG Fellow at the Internet Freedom Foundation, said, “The investigative agencies may rely on these posts even if they are not incriminatory. The law only requires the posts to be relevant to the proceedings. For example, in case the posts adduce motive to commit the alleged offence, they are relevant.”

Newslaundry’s ongoing series on the case against journalist Siddique Kappan. https://www.newslaundry.com/media/the-siddique-kappan-chargesheet  

उमर ख़ालिद: 1000 दिन बिना बेल, बिना ट्रायल | 1000 days of Umar Khalid's incarceration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCCrP1Mrms  Ravish at the press club.. besides there are other like Umar Khalis, Shoma Sen,

Lest We Forget: Umar Khalid Spends 1000 Days In Jail https://www.outlookindia.com/national/lest-we-forget-umar-khalid-spends-1000-days-in-jail-news-293212 As the former JNU scholar completes his 1,000 days in prison, the question of delayed justice comes back to the fore again.

उमर ख़ालिद को जेल में करीब तीन साल होने जा रहे हैं। एक हज़ार दिन हो गए लेकिन इस केस की ट्रायल भी शुरू नहीं हुई है और न उमर को ज़मानत मिली है। दिल्ली के प्रेस क्लब में उमर ख़ालिद के समर्थन में एक सभा हुई, जिसमें कई वक्ताओं ने हिस्सा लिया। राजद सांसद मनोज झा ने भी बोला। गुरमेहर कौर भी थी। प्रभात पटनायक और उमर के पिता S Q R इलियासी ने भी बोला। ट्वीटर पर भी कई लोगों ने उमर खालिद को लेकर यह सवाल उठाया कि एक हज़ार दिन से जेल में हैं, उन्हें ज़मानत नहीं मिली है। यह न्यायपालिका के लिए अच्छी बात नहीं है। प्

‘Baseless, unfounded’: India on UN body statement on Khurram Parvez’s arrest https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-united-nations-rights-body-khurram-parvez-arrest-7652198/  
🔴 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had also expressed concern over “crackdown on civil society actors”, use of “sweeping counter-terrorism measures”, and killings of civilians.

the Indian government on Thursday called the statement “baseless and unfounded” and said that the “arrest and subsequent detention” was done “entirely as per provisions of law”. “It also betrays a complete lack of understanding on the part of the OHCHR of the security challenges faced by India from cross-border terrorism and its impact on the most fundamental human right ‘the Right to Life’ of our citizens including in Jammu and Kashmir.”    

Bagchi, while replying to queries regarding the statement, said, “Referring to proscribed terrorist organisations as ‘armed groups’ demonstrates a clear bias on the part of OHCHR. As a democratic country, with an abiding commitment to promote and protect the human rights of its citizens, India takes all necessary steps to counter cross border terrorism.”

OHCHR, on Wednesday, had expressed concern over the detention and urged the government to “fully safeguard” his rights. The OHCHR had also expressed concern over “crackdown on civil society actors”, use of “sweeping counter-terrorism measures”, and killings of civilians.

“We are deeply concerned at the arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez under Indian counter-terrorism legislation, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville had said in a statement. 

OHCHR, on Wednesday, had expressed concern over the detention and urged the government to “fully safeguard” his rights. The OHCHR had also expressed concern over “crackdown on civil society actors”, use of “sweeping counter-terrorism measures”, and killings of civilians.

“We are deeply concerned at the arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez under Indian counter-terrorism legislation, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville had said in a statement.