This is their attempt to silence him: Umar Khalid reaches five years in Indian jail without trial

Held since 2020, Indias most prominent political prisoner has become a symbol of repression under the Modi regimeThere is indeed something about captivity that makes one feel like a state of somewhere between life and death, wrote Umar Khalid in June in a letter penned as his fifth year languishing behind bars approached.Few understand the purgatory of jail like Khalid. For five years - since his arrest in September 2020 under a draconian terrorism law - he has remained Indias most prominent pol...