Afreen Fatima

Afreen Fatima is an Indian student leader and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. She is a prominent Muslim voice against the perceived anti-Muslim policies of the Indian government.[1][2]

Afreen Fatima
NationalityIndian
Alma materJawaharlal Nehru University
OccupationStudent leader
OrganizationFraternity Movement
Known forAnti-CAA protests, activism for representation and identity assertion
TitleNational Secretary
Political partyFraternity Movement

Education

She studied MA in linguistics at JNU, where she also served as the elected councillor in JNU students' union 2019-20 from the school of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies. As a candidate from Fraternity Movement - BAPSA alliance,[3] she strengthened the call of "unity of the oppressed" and raised the issues of representation, discrimination and identity assertion.[4] Formerly, she has been the elected president of Women's College Students' Union at the Aligarh Muslim University for the session 2018-19.[5] She is known to have actively participated in the anti-CAA protests that started in 2019.[6] She faced several days long media trial after a small part of her speech was tweeted by BJP's national spokesman Sambit Patra.[7]

In June 2022 Afrin's house was demolished by the authorities in Prayag Raj after her father Jawed Muhammed, a leader of Welfare Party of India, was accused of taking part in protests against an insulting comment on Prophet Muhammad by Nupur Sharma.[8]

References
  1. "Afreen Fatima". Time. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. Aafaq, Zafar (13 June 2022). "India activist Afreen Fatima says her house bulldozed 'illegally'". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  3. Ghosh, Shaunak. "Tectonic Shift: BAPSA-Fraternity Alliance in the JNU elections". Newslaundry. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  4. "Why JNU's Afreen Fatima can't be cowed down by Left or Right". OnManorama. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  5. "AMUSU Election 2018: Women's College Students' Union results declared, Afreen Fatima elected president". Newsd.in. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  6. "CAA stir: Student leaders from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh to be part of 'Inquilab Morcha'". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  7. "कौन हैं आफ़रीन फातिमा, जिनके वायरल वीडियो को संबित पात्रा ने 'ज़हर की खेती' कहा है?". LallanTop - News with most viral and Social Sharing Indian content on the web in Hindi (in Hindi). Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  8. Schmall, Emily; Raj, Suhasini (11 June 2022). "Protests Over Prophet Muhammad Comments Turn Deadly in India". The New York Times.
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