Afreen Fatima’s household has all the time been fierce advocates for his or her neighborhood, the Muslim minority in India’s Uttar Pradesh province. Her father, Javed Mohammad, has lengthy been a degree of contact for the federal government and a fighter for Muslims within the space within the face of discrimination.

Over the previous a number of years, Fatima explains, that discrimination has only intensified. Egged on by extremist politicians, Muslims in India have been the victims of violence, targets of intimidation, and the topics of state oppression from each official and unofficial channels. The passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019, which the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights stated is “fundamentally discriminatory in nature,” has solely made issues worse.

Afreen tells of how this rising tide of hate has impacted her personally. She explains how her function in pupil authorities at a Muslim college made her the goal of on-line hate mobs, she tells of how her father was arrested on what she describes as flimsy and specious pretenses and has been held since, and at last, she speaks in regards to the stunning destruction of her household house by a bulldozer. 

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