Film Screening - Prisoner No. 626710 is Present
Room: Creative Commons (2nd floor)
Directed by Lalit Vachani.
All are welcome to attend. The time of the screening will be narrowed down closer to the date, so check back for the correct start time.
Film synopsis:
On September 13, 2020, Umar Khalid, a charismatic student leader who recently finished his PhD at India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, was arrested under the draconian UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act) – a law that designates individuals as terrorists and allows the Indian state to imprison people without due process.
His crime? As an Indian Muslim, he had dared to protest against the new citizenship law that the Indian state was trying to impose on its people.
Using found footage of his past speeches along with a forensic analysis of how he was framed by the right-wing, Hindu nationalist media, Umar Khalid’s close friends Banojyotsna Lahiri and Shuddhabrata Sengupta reconstruct the chronology of events that led to his tragic imprisonment.
It has been over 1,400 days since Umar Khalid was arrested. He and his friends still await a fair hearing in court.
Synopsis pulled from lalitvachani.com/film14.html
