Dr Kafeel Khan's legal travails continue

July 28, 2020 18:29

'For the 12th time in five months, the Allahabad High Court on 27 July 2020 deferred a hearing for Kafeel Khan, a doctor incarcerated in Mathura jail for a speech he delivered at Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh Muslim University in December 2019,' reports Saurabh Sharma/101 Reporters in article-14.com.

If the hearing is again postponed on the next date, August 5, then Kafeel Khan's wife, Shabista Khan, who is also a doctor, will protest in front of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly in Lucknow, Sharma reports.

'Khan has been in jail since 29 January or 180 days for a speech in which he criticised the government during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. He was granted bail on 10 February by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Aligarh but wasn't allowed to leave jail. Three days later, the UP government of Yogi Adityanath brought charges under the 40-year-old National Security Act, 1980, against the former government lecturer and paediatrician,' Sharma reports, here.

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