Afreen Fatima | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
Occupation | Student leader |
Organization | Fraternity Movement |
Known for | Anti-CAA protests, activism for representation and identity assertion |
Title | National Secretary |
Political party | Fraternity Movement |
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]
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 controversial comment on Muhammad by Nupur Sharma. [8]