The Latest Breaking News from Sharjeel Imam

A story on a “Christian conversion racket”, another on Washington Post’s “collusion” with Canada, and restaurants “deceiving customers” over paneer.

Reporters usually have strict deadlines from their editors when they go to protest sites. But if the Delhi Police chargesheet in the UAPA case against NewsClick is to be believed, the outfit’s reporters were allegedly sent to participate in protests, distribute money among protesters, and incite violence against the state.

The District Court in Saket discharged former JNU student Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar and activist Asif Iqbal Tanha in the Jamia Millia Islamia University violence case . Read full story on Dynamite News:

The court granted him bail taking into account the Supreme Court's order effectively keeping in abeyance the colonial era sedition law

A Delhi Court on Friday granted bail to Sharjeel Imam in a sedition case lodged against him for allegedly making an inflammatory speech at Jamia during an anti-CAA-NRC protest in 2019. He was in custody for the last 31 months. Read more on Dynamite News:

Former JNU student Sharjeel Imam has been granted bail in a sedition case accusing him of provocative speech – that allegedly led to violence in Jamia Nagar area – during protests against the citizenship law in December 2019, Live Law reported. However, he will continue to be in custody in…

Responding to an open letter to him, jailed activist Umar Khalid has torn into media coverage of his bail proceedings, saying the “lies of the media have far surpassed even the lies of the police” and are “shaping the majoritarian collective conscience” even before “any court of law takes up…

Sharjeel's Advocate Talib Hussain argued that in the light of direction given by the Supreme court on Sedition law, the trial should stay and Sharjeel Imam should be released on interim bail. Read more on Dynamite News:

Freeze on sedition has not transformed into bail for Kappan and Khalid as they face case under UAPA