Responding to an open letter to him, jailed activist Umar Khalid has torn into media coverage of his bail proceedings, saying the “lies of the media have far surpassed even the lies of the police” and are “shaping the majoritarian collective conscience” even before “any court of law takes up my case”.
The open letter to Khalid was penned by Rohit Kumar, an educator, who received a response from the activist on Monday. Both the letters were published by the Wire. The letter comes three months after the National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority objected to how some TV news channels covered Umar’s prosecution.
