UAPA and the Case of Umar Khalid
02.12.2025 | 5 - 6:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley)
Laurel E. Fletcher (Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law; Co-Faculty Director, Miller Institute For Global Challenges And The Law; Director, Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law)
Banojyotsna Lahiri (Research Scholar and Activist, Delhi, India)
Introductions by Leti Volpp (Director, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley; and Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law)
Umar Khalid is detained for protesting the unjust conditions of majoritarian rule under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), among others. Dr. Khalid, scholar-activist and former research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, is deemed seditious by the Indian state for his uncompromising leadership to hold the state to account. Khalid was arrested by Indian authorities on September 13, 2020, for allegedly inciting communal violence.
Event hosted by CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative and co-sponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies, and the Honorable G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law.