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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Hanan Zaffar

India terror law haunts Muslims jailed since 2020 for Delhi riots

The parents of 30-year-old Gulfishan Fatima who is in a Delhi prison for three years now [Danish Pandit/Al Jazeera]

New Delhi, India – Saima Saleem, 27, has been waiting for hours on a bench outside a court of law in New Delhi, her eyes glued to a corridor as she waits for her father, Mohammad Saleem Khan, to appear.

Khan, 49, was arrested three years ago for rioting and murder during the religious riots in the Indian capital, in which 53 people – most of them Muslims – were killed. The courts provided him bail in both the cases.

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