Five Years of Jail Haven’t Broken Son’s Spirit: Umar Khalid’s Father

Five years of jail haven’t broken son’s spirit: Umar Khalid’s father

Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid's father speaks out on his son's spirit amid prolonged incarceration.

‘Selective Persecution’: Seven International Rights Groups Demand Unconditional Release of Umar Khalid

NEW DELHI – As civil rights activist Umar Khalid completes five years in jail without trial or conviction, seven major international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have jointly called for his immediate and unconditional release.In a strongly worded joint statement issued on Friday, the rights groups described Khalid’s prolonged imprisonment as a “violation of his rights” and an instance of “selective persecution”, a…

Umar Khalid completes five years in jail

Photo: Shakeeb KPA/Maktoob Today, 13 September 2025, marks five years since Umar Khalid, a young human rights defender targeted by the Hindu nationalist BJP government for opposing discriminatory citizenship laws, was imprisoned under a draconian anti-terror law. Khalid, who was arrested on 13 September 2020, has been booked under the UAPA terror law in a conspiracy case that shifts the blame for the 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi onto Muslim …

India: Free Umar Khalid - Stop Invoking Counter-Terrorism Law to Silence Dissent

The undersigned organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender and student activist Umar Khalid, who was arrested on 13 September 2020 on politically motivated and spurious charges, including for alleged ter…