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Pregnant student Safoora Zargar at risk in jail in India

The 27-year-old sociology student at the prestigious Jamia Milia Islamia university in New Delhi, was taking a nap, her husband, who didn't want to be named, told the BBC. The couple had married 19 months ago, and Ms Zargar had discovered just weeks earlier that she was pregnant. She'd been suffering from nausea and was generally feeling lethargic, he said. The officers told them they were from the "special cell" - the anti-terror wing of the Delhi police - and asked her to go with them to their office in central Delhi. Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52608589

CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT BILL: INDIA’S NEW ‘ANTI-MUSLIM’ LAW EXPLAINED

India’s parliament has passed a bill which offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from three neighbouring countries.

A RECIPE FOR UNREST: INDIA’S NEW CITIZENSHIP LAW OUTRAGES MUSLIMS

When India’s Home Minister Amit Shah proposed his bill in parliament on December 9th, he framed it as an act of mercy.

INDIA PREPARES TO BLOCK NATURALIZATION FOR MUSLIMS

A bill establishing a religious test for immigration to India is expected to pass Parliament, a major step for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist agenda.