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Umar Khalid is an activist and public intellectual who has engaged with questions of democracy, constitutional rights and minority rights in India. A student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he was pursuing PhD, he emerged as a prominent voice during the 2016 student movement, which sparked nationwide debate on dissent and free speech. Thereafter, he helped build campaigns against hate crimes targeting Muslims and became an important voice in the democratic protests against the communal amendments to the citizenship law. In 2020 he was arrested under UAPA in connection with the Delhi riots case and remains in jail without trial. His incarceration has raised questions about the limits of democratic dissent in India today.