{"id":171262,"date":"2025-03-20T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T06:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=171262"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T06:33:46","slug":"six-muslim-students-held-for-protesting-arrest-over-namaz-at-up-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/03\/20\/six-muslim-students-held-for-protesting-arrest-over-namaz-at-up-university.html","title":{"rendered":"Six Muslim students held for protesting arrest over \u2018namaz\u2019 at UP university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-171263\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/images-24-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/>New Delhi: Six Muslim students were arrested for holding a protest at a university in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Meerut against the imprisonment of a fellow student for offering namaz on the campus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, around 400 students staged a silent demonstration demanding the release of Khalid Pradhan leading to a police action. Police used lathis to disperse the crowd which was protesting peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur university also celebrates puja, but why this one-sided torture on Muslims who are fasting in the holy month of Ramadan?\u201d a student was quoted by themedia as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities called the protest illegal, citing the absence of prior permission.<\/p>\n<p>Shan Mohammad, a student leader at the protest, complained of the police misbehaviour with the demonstrators. \u201cThey invited us to the police station for talks but instead detained many of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The police action reportedly stemmed from an Instagram video showing students offering namaz, which went viral and fuelled online and offline hate campaign against Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid, 22, was arrested for offering namaz in an open space on the campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Six Muslim students were arrested for holding a protest at a university in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Meerut against the imprisonment of a fellow student for offering namaz on the campus. According to Kashmir Media Service, around 400 students staged a silent demonstration demanding the release of Khalid Pradhan leading to a police action. Police &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindutva"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/images-24-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171264,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171262\/revisions\/171264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}