Over 20 celebrities, including anurag kashyap, vishal Bhardwaj, mahesh bhatt and ratna pathak Shah, joined hands to urge “Delhi police to stop abusing the lockdown” and put an “end to the witch-hunt” against “students and activists protesting against CAA”.Meanwhile to fight this pandemic, the citizens and authorities need to stand by each other. By targeting activists taking advantage of the lockdown, when there is hardly even any media coverage of its actions, the delhi police is betraying the civic rights of the citizens. We urge the delhi police to stop abusing the lockdown, respect the human rights of our fellow citizens and put an end to this witch-hunt. We demand the release of these students and activists”, the celebrities urged in the statement. 

 

The 29 signatories include mahesh bhatt, aparna sen, ratna pathak Shah, anurag kashyap, vishal Bhardwaj, vishal dadlani, nandita das, konkona sen sharma, hansal mehta, onir, sushant singh, mohammed zeeshan ayyub, Neeraj Ghaywan, ashwini Chaudhury, ankur tewari, Abish Mathew, sandhya mridul, Andre Borges, Vinta Nanda, mallika Dua, Saba Singh azad, Sohail Tatari, Kushan Nandy among others.

 

The statement came as a response to the recent arrest of two students of Jamia Millia Islamia University. The country light now is reeling through a grave crisis as a result of the novel coronavirus and nearly a month-long lockdown. We are all being asked to stay home and stay safe in order to break the chain of the deadly virus. We are shocked to know that in this midst of such a grave situation, the delhi police has arrested two students of Jamia Millia Islamia and several activists from localities of North-East delhi who had participated in peaceful protests against the CAA. The personalities stressed that “the lockdown cannot be a lockdown of the rights of citizens, and must not be abused by the authorities in this manner”.

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