Voices From Prison: Hope Remains A Stubborn Thing Even In Captivity, Says Umar Khalid
“The Operative Word in Mainstream Media’s Discourse For Me is No More ‘Anti-National’; it’s ‘Terrorist’”
“The Operative Word in Mainstream Media’s Discourse For Me is No More ‘Anti-National’; it’s ‘Terrorist’”
I am enormously relieved that the separation from my only daughter, Maaysha, has ended. We can speak to each other every day.
We became victims of two things—unjust investigation and a media trial that was used as a weapon. The Media Trial was Deeply Painful.
The jail—and the treatment meted out to the accused—felt as though it belonged to another age, one in which the rule of law did not exist.
The Bhima Koregaon case is not only about those who were imprisoned. It is also about the fate of democracy itself
I am enormously relieved that the separation from my only daughter, Maaysha, has ended. We can speak to each other every day.
We became victims of two things—unjust investigation and a media trial that was used as a weapon. The Media Trial was Deeply Painful.
The jail—and the treatment meted out to the accused—felt as though it belonged to another age, one in which the rule of law did not exist.
The Bhima Koregaon case is not only about those who were imprisoned. It is also about the fate of democracy itself