ISLAMABAD – Amnesty International makes key demand from India over releaseof pregnant muslim scholar Safoora Zargar.
Amnesty International has demanded the Indian government to releasepregnant scholar Safoora Zargar, who was arrested in connection withprotests against the controversial CAA law in Delhi.
“Research scholar Safoora Zargar was three months pregnant when she wasarrested,” the international human rights group said on social networkingsite Twitter.
“The Government of India has ruthlessly arrested a pregnant woman and senther to an overcrowded prison during COVID-19,” the statement said.
Amnesty India has demanded the release of Safura Zargar.
The 27-year-old Safoora Zargar was arrested on April 10 and prosecutedunder the strict anti-terrorism law, the Prevention of Illegal ActivitiesAct 2019, when she was three months pregnant.
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Safoora Zargar, a research scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia and mediacoordinator of the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), staged a peacefulprotest in New Delhi for several weeks in December last year against thecontroversial citizenship law.
The Indian government had sent Safora Zargar to Tihar Jail under theAnti-Terrorism Act.
Police has accused Safoora Zargar of being a key ‘conspirator’ in the Februaryriotslink.
