Swara Bhaskar, Mahesh Bhatt & Nagma Demand Release Of Activist-actor Sadaf Jafar
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oi-Swikriti Srivastava
By Lekhaka
Amid
all
the
ongoing
protests
against
CAA
(Citizenship
Amendment
Act),
Bollywood
celebrities
like
Swara
Bhaskar,
Mahesh
Bhatt,
Mira
Nair
and
Nagma
slam
the
Uttar
Pradesh
cops
for
arresting
activist-actor
Sadaf
Jafar
in
Lucknow
and
demanded
her
release
from
jail.
For
the
unversed,
Sadaf
Jafar
is
also
a
Congress
spokesperson
and
she
got
arrested
on
December
19
while
she
was
live
on
Facebook
from
the
spot
where
the
protests
against
the
amended
citizenship
act
had
gone
violent.
Filmmaker
Mahesh
Bhatt
took
to
Twitter
and
wrote,
"If
the
mind
is
shackled
or
made
impotent
through
fear,
it
makes
no
difference
under
what
form
of
government
you
live,
u
are
a
subject
&
not
a
citizen
.
Without
liberty
of
speech,
all
of
the
outward
forms
and
structures
of
free
institutions
are
a
sham,
a
pretense.
#FreeSadaf."
Actress
Swara
Bhaskar
also
reacted
on
Twitter
an
wrote,
"Activist
and
actor
#sadafjafar
is
in
jail
in
Lucknow..
not
clear
why!
Her
friends
#DeepakKabir
is
also
in
jail
because
he
went
to
enquire
after
her..
#FreeSadaf
#FreeDeepak
and
make
UP
police
accountable
for
its
excesses!"
Filmmaker
Mira
Nair
also
spoke
about
Sadaf's
imprisonment
and
tweeted,
"Sadaf
has
now
been
in
jail
for
12
days.
She
has
been
tortured
and
left
to
shiver
in
the
cold
of
a
cell
for
close
to
two
weeks.
As
we
end
this
year,
let
us
also
work
to
end
the
injustices
of
it.
#FreeSadaf
&
all
other
protestors."
Actress
Nagma
Morarji
also
reacted
to
the
arresting
of
Sadaf
Jafar
and
tweeted,
"#PMModi
Ji
#FreeSadaf
tell
ur
#UP
cops
a
mother
of
2young
children
who
hv
no
1
to
take
care
of
thm
but
her
hv
sme
compassion
they
r
living
alone.
We
live
in
a
democratic
society
we
uphold
our
constitution,
We
hv
a
right
to
freespeech
she
has
been
detained
in
#UP
for
no
fault."