Step forward in support of the struggling students of Jamia Millia Islamia and against the brutality perpetrated by the Jamia administration and the police!
Attacks on democratic rights will not be tolerated!
Before dawn on 13th February 2025, Delhi Police entered the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia, beat up the protesting students, and detained them. The students were beaten up by the police in custody, and their whereabouts were not revealed for a long time.
Suppressing this protest, the police beat up the students on 13 February 2025 and also tortured them by taking them into custody. The female students said that at 5:30 am on 13 February, they were detained and misbehaved with by male policemen. After this, 17 students were suspended by the Jamia administration. The Jamia administration shamelessly did not stop here. The personal information, phone numbers, etc., related to these 17 people, including female students, were pasted on the notice board. These steps by the Jamia administration are a strong attack on the basic democratic right of the students to protest. It is being opposed across the country.
The Jamia violence is not an unexpected incident. The increasing fascist repression in the country is also reflected in university campuses, which are special targets of fascists because they are centers of scientific temperament and reasoning. This is not the first incident of this kind. Although the process of repression of common student interests continues regularly, fascists carry out big repressive incidents in a planned manner so that fear can be established among the students and the public. Jamia is a special target because it is a ‘minority’ institution, and the RSS-BJP mainly aims to establish Muslims as the (‘imaginary’) enemy. The aim of the Sangh Parivar to accelerate this project by targeting Jamia is also reflected in the propaganda of the lapdog media on the issue. These attacks on Jamia are aimed at both suppressing the BJP’s political resistance (Jamia students have a history of fighting against oppression) and establishing the image of Muslims as the ‘imaginary’ enemy (which the Sangh identifies with the ‘minority’ category of the university).