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‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trial

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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

4d ago

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The Guardian‘Humanity is a privilege’: Umar Khalid on his six years in an Indian jail without trialtheguardian.com
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Exclusive: Activist tells of his life as one of India’s most prominent political prisoners and his opposition to the government of Narendra Modi Prison is hardest at sunset. As the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in Delhi’s most infamous jail are cast out of their cells and forced into the dank yard until darkness falls, prisoner number 626714 feels the punishing dread begin to rise. Yet the inmate – better known as Umar Khalid – was recently moved to discover that another political prisoner, exiled at a camp thousands of miles from India, wrote of the very same feeling more than 150 years ago. Continue reading...

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