Afreen Fatima

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 Afreen'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 a controversial comment on Muhammad by Nupur Sharma.^[8]

She works as a researcher at The Polis Project, a research and journalism organization.^[9]