Over a month after journalist Prashant Kanojia was arrested over a tweet his partner Jagisha Arora put out a video appeal on Monday asking people to participate in a Twitter trend demanding the release of the journalist. Arora said in the video that she believes Kanojia was only arrested for standing up to the government and not a tweet and also appealed for financial assistance to fight his case in court. Arora said, “It has been over a month since journalist Prashant Kanojia was arrested. He has spoken against the violence against the downtrodden, the discriminated, Adivasis, women and Muslims,” Arora said. Here’s her video appeal.

Source: Huffington Post September 28, 2020 09:00 UTC