At the time of her arrest, Safoora Zargar, a research scholar at @jmiu_official, was 3 months pregnant. The Government of India has ruthlessly arrested a pregnant woman and sent her to an overcrowded prison during #COVID19! She was three months pregnant at the time of her arrest. The riots in New Delhi began over India’s disputed new citizenship law, which led to clashes in which hundreds were injured and houses, shops, mosques, schools and vehicles were set on fire. The new Indian law grants citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan prior to 2015.

Source: Pakistan Today May 02, 2020 08:03 UTC