Afreen Fatima
| Afreen Fatima | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| 💼 Occupation | Student leader |
| 🏢 Organization | Fraternity Movement |
| Known for | Anti-CAA protests, activism for representation and identity assertion |
| Title | National Secretary |
| 🏛️ Political party | Fraternity Movement |
Afreen Fatima is an Indian student leader and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. She is a prominent Muslim voice against the perceived anti-Muslim policies of the Indian government.[1][2]
Biography
She studied MA in linguistics at JNU, where she also served as the elected councillor in JNU students' union 2019-20 from the school of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies. As a candidate from Fraternity Movement - BAPSA alliance,[3] she strengthened the call of "unity of the oppressed" and raised the issues of representation, discrimination and identity assertion.[4] Formerly, she has been the elected president of Women's College Students' Union at the Aligarh Muslim University for the session 2018-19.[5] She is known to have actively participated in the anti-CAA protests that started in 2019.[6] She faced several days long media trial after a small part of her speech was tweeted by BJP's national spokesman Sambit Patra.[7]
In June 2022 Afreen's house was demolished by the authorities in Prayag Raj after her father Jawed Muhammed, a leader of Welfare Party of India, was accused of taking part in protests against a controversial comment on Muhammad by Nupur Sharma.[8]
She works as a researcher at The Polis Project, a research and journalism organization.[9]
References
- ↑ "Afreen Fatima". Time. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-03.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Aafaq, Zafar (13 June 2022). "India activist Afreen Fatima says her house bulldozed 'illegally'". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- ↑ Ghosh, Shaunak (13 September 2019). "Tectonic Shift: BAPSA-Fraternity Alliance in the JNU elections". Newslaundry. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ "Why JNU's Afreen Fatima can't be cowed down by Left or Right". OnManorama. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "AMUSU Election 2018: Women's College Students' Union results declared, Afreen Fatima elected president". Newsd.in. 4 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ "CAA stir: Student leaders from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh to be part of 'Inquilab Morcha'". The New Indian Express. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ "कौन हैं आफ़रीन फातिमा, जिनके वायरल वीडियो को संबित पात्रा ने 'ज़हर की खेती' कहा है?". LallanTop - News with most viral and Social Sharing Indian content on the web in Hindi (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ Schmall, Emily; Raj, Suhasini (11 June 2022). "Protests Over Prophet Muhammad Comments Turn Deadly in India". The New York Times.
- ↑ "About - The Polis Project". The Polis Project. 2021-02-10. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
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