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What Freedom Means For India's Political Prisoners

Maryam was six바카라the youngest of three siblings바카라when her father, Khalid Saifi, was arrested following the sectarian violence in northeast Delhi in February 2020. The violence took place against the backdrop of months of protests led by Muslim women at several sites across the national capital and in the country, against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the proposed updates to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR). Maryam바카라s mother Nargis recalls the day as the beginning of 바카라a dark, endless night바카라 that has been written into their fates. 바카라Memories of her father have begun to blur in Maryam바카라s mind,바카라 Nargis says. The child can only remember how he looks through photographs and videos. When Nargis asks her husband, now 45, in Delhi바카라s Tihar jail to tell her what 바카라freedom바카라 means to him, he says: 바카라The liberty to watch my children grow up.바카라 At his first appearance in court, Saifi was on a wheelchair, with both his legs in bandages. He had been tortured in police custody and has been denied bail so far. FIR 59/2020, in which Saifi is an accused, is based on an alleged 바카라conspiracy바카라 to orchestrate the February 2020 violence at the peak of the women-led protests against the legislations that were criticised as being discriminatory against Muslims. It invokes sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), which inverts the judicial principle of 바카라bail is the rule, jail is an exception바카라. Among Saifi바카라s seventeen co-accused, only two are Hindus. There were 38 Muslims among the 53 people killed in the violence that raged from February 23 to 26, 2020. Saifi, who was once full of joie de vivre and loved food and travel, now pines only for some time with his family. When he misses his favourite dishes, he asks Nargis to have them바카라바카라on my behalf, so I바카라m content바카라.

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