StandWithUmarKhalid

Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have been denied bail by the Delhi High Court again. But why? What did the court say while rejecting their fresh bail pleas? What did the Supreme Court’s January order have to do with today’s decision? And when can Khalid and Imam apply for bail again? What does it mean for Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam’s next chance at bail? @hey_eshwar explains. Umar Khalid recently wrote about his time in prison: thequint.com/opinion/umar-kh… And so did Sharjeel Imam: thequint.com/news/politics/s…

'Sometimes, I spiral into a bad place': Today marks six years of Umar Khalid in prison without trial. Here's what he said to friends and family. Six years in prison can sound like an enormous, almost incomprehensible stretch of time. But inside, Umar Khalid writes, time is experienced differently – through the heat that wakes him at night, the breathlessness that sends his body into panic, the books he reads, the music that brings back memories, and the waiting. "Most nights, the heat makes me wake up after a few hours from breathlessness. The thing about breathlessness is that it makes the otherwise involuntary breathing visible and shatters bodily transparency. The acute physical agony is completely invisible to anyone other than your body, and I might even go on to say that this overwhelming experience is total," he says. "Inside the prison, the heart induced breathlessness, or breathlessness by other causes, is taken as a part of the condition of the prisoner’s life. So, far from any medical intervention, you must take on the role of a medical expert and attempt an affective understanding of the physiology of your own body." Watch his account as narrated by @hey_eshwar : youtube.com/watch?v=NVYlwvnO…