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New Delhi: The Students and Alumni of the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU have condemned the use of a draconian and colonial-era law on Sharjeel Imam who has been a vocal critic of the Citizenship Amendment Act and the use of the National Register of Citizens to disempower and disenfranchise lakhs of residents. In a statement, they say that the blatant targeting of the minority Muslim identity that Imam represents is effectively aided by these laws that are used to hound and suppress dissenting and marginalized voices.
Sharjeel Imam, a student of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University has been charged with UAPA and sedition on 25 January 2020 for a speech that he made in Aligarh Muslim University against the CAA, NRC and NPR. In the following days, four state governments have filed First Information Reports against him as well.
The alumni condemned the vilification of dissenting Muslim voices by the state machinery and the media trial that Sharjeel Imam has been subjected to.
“An edited clip of Sharjeel Imam’s speech has been taken out of context and circulated from the twitter handle of Sambit Patra, a BJ spokesperson. This clip has not only been employed by various media networks to target Sharjeel but has also been actively used to discredit the protests against CAA in Shaheen Bagh and other sites across the country”, the statement reads.
In addition to this, they have also criticised the arbitrary arrests of three students of Aligarh Muslim University—Ahmed Mujtaba Faraz, Tahir Azmi and Siddharth Gulati and suppression of other dissenting voices such as Akhil Gogoi, Bittu Sonowal and Dharjya Konwar.
“We condemn the India TV’s media trial of Afreen Fatima, a student of the School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University and an active critic of the CAA. A doctored video of her speeches has been unethically used to sensationalize and manipulate the contexts and content of her words. We unequivocally stand against the Islamophobic nature of the state which is ferociously criminalizing Muslim identity and dissent against the CAA”, adds the statement.
The undersigned students and alumni of the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU extended their solidarity to Sharjeel Imam and members of his family who have also been at the receiving end of harassment by the state authorities. They demand the revocation of all charges against Sharjeel Imam and that such harassment and intimidation of his family end immediately.
Signatories:
1. Brinda Kumar
2. Anusha Sundar
3. Harsha Gautam
4. Preeti Gulati 5.Mahima Bobin
6. Arundhati Lahiri
7. Shashi Bhushan Gupta
8. Vardan
9. Iqbal Ahmad
10. Shibi Laxman
11. G. A. Raza
12. Amit Kumar
13. CJ Kuncheria 14.Surbhi Vatsa
15. Rashmi Banerjee
16. Smrti K.
17. Sohini Chattopadhyay
18. Raj Kumar Thakur
19. Nataliya Singh
20. Thahani Rezak
21. Sana Kochak
22. Ansil. K.M
23. Ajith. M
24. Akhil. A.R
25. Shriya
26. Somak Biswas
27. Sneha Ganguly
28. Rajesh Kumar Gupta
29. Kanupriya Sharma
30. Swathi Shivanand
31. Fatima Rahman
32. Ashank
33. Gaurav C Garg
34. Saket Arya
35. Prabal Saran Agarwal
36. Madhulagna Halder
37. Dinesh Kataria
38. Salma Wasi
39. Shameem K. K.
40. Noorunnisa K P
41. Sonu Vincent
42. Atul Meena
43. Anas Ali
44. Aishwarya Kothare
45. Bushra
46. Dolan Samanta
47. Misbah Ali
48. Divyani Motla
49. Saib Bilaval
50. Amrita Chattopadhyay
51. Geeta Thatra
52. Nimra Rizvi
53. Meenakshi A
54. Punkaj Singh
55. Ruchika Sharma
56. Zubair Khalid
57. Nilanjana Bhattacharjee
58. Navoneel Ray
59. Uthara K
60. Geeta Kumari
61. Shahid Jamal
62. Ameen Muhammed P S
63. Fathima Rajila
64. Ufaque Paiker
65. Madhavi Jha
66. Sudhir Nirala
67. Karim Malak
68. Sayantani Mukherjee
69. Purbasha Das
70. Manilata
71. Aviroop Sengupta
72. Priyanka Sarma
73. Poorva Rajaram
74. Jyoti Agarwal
75. Zainab Wani
76. Urna Mukherjee
77. Bipasha Ray
78. Jeena Sarah Jacob
79. Sohinee Basak
80. Anwesha Sengupta
81. Priyanka Seshadri
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93. Sushmita Nandini
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95. Poonam Kumari
96. Neha Chaudhary
97. Pratyay Nath
98. Parnisha Sarkar
99. Pratishtha Maurya
100. Satarupa Lahiri
101. Jaya Priyadarshini
102. Anwesha Das
103. Saborni Ahamed
104. Sudha Tiwari
105. Anirban Bhattacharya
106. PM Mohamed Jubair
107. Paulami Guha Biswas
108. Jonmani Das
109. Shouroseni Guha Ray
110. Siddhartha C. Mukherjee
111. Drishti Chhibber
112. Monalisa B.
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139. Wasif Ali 140.Monalisa
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144. Archisman Chaudhuri
145. Divya Cherian
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150. Akansha Singh
151. Kakul Fatima
152. Agnibho Gangopadhyay
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154. Raghu Malhotra
155. Aparna Ashwarya
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157. Uponita Mukherjee 158.Ansh Sharma
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