has prompted urgent calls from civil rights movements and human rights organisations for the release of political prisoners from overcrowded and dirty prisons.
has been trending for the past several weeks on Twitter, seeking the release of protesters facing trial in various cases, including the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case and the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.on 24 April to immediately release all political prisoners in the wake of the pandemic. “Many political prisoners, including the ones who have been jailed in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case, have been languishing in jail while the trial is getting delayed.
“Kappan had been admitted to KVM hospital in Mathura and had reportedly been kept chained to his bed even when his health condition had become precarious,”Student activist and United Against Hate founder Khalid Saifi, who was arrested for his alleged role in the Delhi riots in February 2020, has also reportedly contracted Covid-19 and has been denied medical treatment.