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]]>Jamiat took decision to launch voter’s list movement in the wake of revelation made by Centre for Research and Debates in Development Policy (CRDDP) that names of several lakhs Muslims have been missing from the voter’s lists that is affecting electoral and social strength of community. In order to rectify the anomaly, The National Working Committee has issued advisory to all its local branches in various states to take up this work on war footing. They have also been advised for creating mass awareness about the same.
The members of (JUHWC) also expressed their deep concern over the decision of Uttrakhand’s High Court for banning issuance of fatawa by Islamic institutions. However they expressed satisfaction over stay intervention by the Apex Court.
The members of (JUHWC) also reviewed Jamiat’s committee report about ongoing reform measures undertaken by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They have asked the committee members to submit exclusive resolution in the next meeting of (JUHWC).
The JUHWC has decided to hold its concluding centenary conference in November, 2019 at Deoband which was earlier scheduled to take place in the Month of February 2019.
In the meeting of (JUHWC) a detailed report on Jamiat’s relief and rehabilitation efforts in Kerala was also presented. The members of (JUHWC) expressed their satisfaction over this report. It is to be noted that till now Jamiat has spent more than five crore rupees on relief and rehabilitation work in Kerala. At present, Jamiat is engaged in construction of 100 houses and repairing 100 damaged houses after flood devastation.
The meeting was attended by nearly 40 members and special invitees representing across the country.
Courtesy: Two Circles
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]]>The post Fast-track court, fearless lawyers and an unbiased Police: How 11 people got life sentences in Ramgarh Lynching case appeared first on SabrangIndia.
]]>Thanks to these three lawyers from the Human Rights Law Network, the family of Alimuddin Ansari, who was mercilessly lynched in Ramgarh last year over alleged charges of transporting beef, have got justice. On March 21, a fast-track court in Ramgarh awarded life sentences to 11 people most of whom belonged to Hindu right-wing organisations.
The 11 convicted include a district media cell in-charge of BJP, Nitayanand Mahto and at least three members of the local gau Raksha Samiti – Santosh Singh, Deepak Mishra and Chhotu Verma. The others are Sikander Ram, Vicky Saw, Raju Kumar, Vikram Prasad, Kapil Thakur and Uttam Kumar.
On June 29, 2017, 45-year-old Alimuddin Ansari was attacked by a mob and his Maruti van set afire Bazartand village in Ramgarh. He was initially taken to Ramgarh’s Sadar hospital by the local police and later shifted to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi, where he died within minutes of being admitted.
But beyond the rather seminal event of seeing 11 people being awarded life imprisonment, there are three crucial factors which ensured that for once, the family of a person lynched to death got justice: the fact that the trial was conducted in a fast-track court, the fact that three lawyers stood up against the right-wing forces and the most important fact: a police force that actually followed the constitution and stayed true to the case.
“Always knew this case will be tough, but we never gave up”
Shadab Ansari came to know about the brutal lynching of Alimuddin Ansari like the rest of the nation: newspaper articles and WhatsApp videos. On July 13, following strong agitation from locals and the heightened media scrutiny, the BJP government referred to the case to a fast-track court. This, according to Ansari, was the first sign that there was a chance the family of Alimuddin might get justice. “We all know the stories of delays in the normal courts but when the matter came to a fast-track court, we knew that regardless of what the outcome will be, at least the case will move at a good pace,” he told TwoCircles.net.
But even then, for the family of Alimuddin to have any chance against the right-wing machinery, there was a need for good, honest lawyers who were ready to take the ‘risks’, and this is where the Human Rights Law Network stepped in. Ansari says, “We met the family who told us that there was no one to represent them and given what they had gone through, they did not have much money. But we at HRLN decided to fight the case regardless.”
Soon, however, Ansari realised that the element of danger was almost inbuilt in a case like this. “When I went to the court for the first time, I saw huge crowds supporting the accused while the family of Alimuddin was hopelessly outnumbered…we realised that we were not fighting just against the accused but an entire machinery,” he recalls. A resident of Ranchi, he would often go on the bike to the court in Ramgarh. “I and Rajiv Hembrom would always be told by our well-wishers: be safe and stay alert. We never knew when we might be attacked. Thankfully, no such thing happened but I can say that there was never a moment we could relax,” says Ansari.
In cases like these when the accused are known to have the support of politicians, Ansari also says he was impressed with the role played by the police. Remember, there was video evidence in the case of Pahlu Khan also, but in that particular case, the Rajasthan Police’s role was rightly questioned after it exonerated all the accused. “As a lawyer, it is not uncommon to see how the police try to hijack a case or make it weak due to political pressure…but in this case, the police followed the constitution right from the start and remained resolutely unbiased,” he says. “Do not forget that the case was still of the police…as private lawyers, we could only assist but it was the Police that had to take the lead,” says Ansari.
Three police officers who were also eyewitnesses to the case gave honest and exhaustive statements to both the Investigating Officer and while testifying in court, making the case against the accused extremely strong. Apart from that, the charge-sheets prepared by the Police were strong and the Superintendent of Police, Ramgarh, Kishore Kaushal (transferred in February 2018) was personally overseeing the case proceedings.
The accused can, of course, appeal against the judgement in High Court. Ansari says they will adopt a wait-and-watch policy for the time being. “We are happy with the verdict,” he adds.
Courtesy: Two Circle
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]]>The claim of Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that he had made UP a ‘crime free’ state fell on its face on Thursday evening when a 38-year-old journalist was shot dead in Kanpur. Naveen Gupta, a journalist working with Hindi daily Hindustan, was shot dead by three bikers in Bilhaur area of Kanpur.
According to Superintendent of Police (rural) JP Singh, police has filed cases against unidentified assailants and has rounded up few suspects for questioning and investigation. The incident was recorded at 5.30 pm when Naveen was sitting near a shop in Bilhaur Nagar Palika. According to the police version, three attackers approached Naveen on two bikes and opened fire at him. Principal secretary (information) Awanish Awasthi informed media in Lucknow that CM Yogi Adityanath has expressed condolence and ordered DGP Sulkhan Singh to carry out the investigation in the case.
Naveen succumbed to injuries and died on his way to the hospital. He was declared ‘brought dead’ at the hospital. According to the SP JP Singh, the police is talking with the family members of Naveen to find out the motive behind the killing. The incident comes as a blot on the CM Yogi Adityanath who made a remark on Tuesday about investments in the state. He claimed to have sent criminals to their “right place” after coming into the state’s power.
In the latest world press freedom rankings, India was ranked at 136 among 180 countries. The ranking, released in April, marked “nationalism” and “self-censorship” among the media outlets behind the such a low place for India.
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]]>New Delhi: A snow sculpting team from India led by a young Kashmiri artist Zahoor Din Lone has been selected for the second consecutive year for Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championship 2018 to be held in the United States.
The snow sculpting team ‘Callisto’ was selected from India for the first time in 2017 for the international snow sculpture championship which is being held annually in the US. The team consisting of four artists Zahoor Din Lone, Sunil Kushwaha, Ravi Prakash, Mridul Kumar Upadhyay won spirit award last year.
This year the team led by Kashmir Artist Zahoor Din Lone has been selected again. However, this year the team has replaced Mridul Kumar Upadhyay with another Kashmiri artist Irfan Lateef Mir for the championship.
Irfan Lateef Mir a resident of Lolab area of Kupwara district, another young sculpture artist from valley has been included in the team by Zahoor for this year’s championship. Mir is an Artist who explores different mediums and does most of his works with metal wire.
The championship is being organised by the International Snow Sculpture Organizing Committee (ISSCOC) for the last 28 years in Breckenridge, Colorado, US. This is the first ever snow sculpting team from India to represent team India in any International snow sculpture championship.
Zahoor Din Lone who hails from a small village of Pattan Singhpora in north Kashmir has pursued Masters in Fine arts from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi after completing his Bachelors in Fine arts from the University of Kashmir.
Zahoor will be leading an Indian four-member team to the United States for this Snow Sculpture Championship. Before participating in the US-based championship in 2017, Zahoor has earlier participated and gained experience of snow sculpture from ‘Snow Fiesta-2014’, organized by the Eplanner event management and J&K Tourism in Gulmarg.
“It was due to the ‘Snow Fiesta’ camp that I got an international opportunity and an opportunity to lead team India at the international platform in the United States,” he said while thanking Eplanner.
“I submitted work samples of the sculpture camp in which I participated in 2014. That camp really helped me to grab this opportunity. And we were selected for US championship in 2017. This year we again applied and got selected. In the valley we have enough talent but the lack of the platform to explore,” he said.
However, due to the callous attitude of state government last year, he said, “We didn’t receive any support or logistic help. We managed out tools, uniform and other miscellaneous expenditures ourselves.”
The ISSCOC receives hundreds of submissions across the world to the event and sixteen teams are chosen to participate in the championship.
Snow artists from around the world will compete January 22-28, 2018 in Breckenridge at the International Snow Sculpture Championships. Sculptures, which remain on display through February start as 12-foot-tall, 20+ ton blocks of snow.
Related:
Kashmiri youth struggles to fund trip to represent India in International Snow Sculpture Championships
Indian team led by Kashmiri youth wins ‘Spirit award’ at snow sculpting championship in USA
This story was first published on Two Circles.
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]]>Apoorvanand, Hartosh Singh Bal, Manisha Sethi, Syeda Hameed & Shabnam Hashmi addressed the media and expressed grave concern at the findings of the investigation conducted by The Caravan.
A press statement issued after the event said, “Deeply troubled by attacks on ordinary people, lynching of Dalits, Muslims, killings of rationalists, journalists, activists over the past 3 years now we are suddenly faced with a new situation which forces us to ask: Would even the Judges and lawyers who refuse to tow the line be done away with?”
According to the facts revealed by The Caravan’s investigation, Brijgopal Harkishan Loya’s father Harkishan, sister Anuradha Biyani and niece Nupur Balaprasad Biyani have spoken after three years of his death to Niranjan Takle about the mysterious circumstances of his death in Nagpur in the night of Nov 30 or morning of Dec 1, 2014.
The panel put forward the demand for an immediate high-level Judicial Enquiry and security for the Loya family and the journalist Niranjan Takle.
Loya was hearing the case involving the allegedly-staged encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in 2005. The prime accused in the case was Amit Shah—Gujarat’s minister of state for home at the time of the killing, and the BJP’s national president at the time of Loya’s death.
According to the family members, Loya was persuaded to go to Nagpur (he was quite reluctant to go) to attend the wedding on November 30, 2014, of a colleagues’ daughter. On December 1, 2014, various members of the family received calls from someone who introduced himself as judge Barde informing them that Loya had a cardiac arrest and died. His post-mortem had already been conducted and his body had been sent to the ancestral home in Gategaon. They were told that he had chest pain and was taken to a private institution called the Dande Hospital in an auto rickshaw. Later, he was shifted to Meditrina hospital—another private hospital. He was declared dead on arrival. Ishwar Baheti, an RSS worker, informed Loya’s father that he would arrange for the body to reach his native place.
The Press conference was aimed to reveal the facts towards the general public.
The investigative report which has appeared in three parts in The Caravan raises questions and points out to inconsistencies in the story told so far to the world and the family by officials, said speakers.
The following were a few points raised by the speakers today:
● Different versions of the time of death given in the postmortem report and telephonic information given to the family
● Informing the family only after post-mortem was done and not immediately when he was taken ill or immediately after his death
● Loya was only 48 yrs with no history of any heart ailment
● He was in a VIP guest house, a CBI Judge, yet taken to hospital in an auto-rickshaw to an obscure private hospital
● the signature on every page of the post-mortem report by “Maiyatacha Chulatbhau”, or paternal cousin, according to the family there is no such person
● the wiping clean of all data from Loya’s phone before it was returned to the family
● the presence of blood on his clothes
● the role played by an RSS activist in telling Loya’s family about the location of his body and delivering his phone, to the family
● Sending Loya’s body to the village unaccompanied by anyone but the ambulance driver
● If it was a natural death why was the post-mortem conducted
● Why there was no panchnama
● Barde had not gone with Loya, why did he call?
● How did the RSS man know in which hospital Sarita Mandhane was?
● Why did the PM report showed the clothes as ‘Dry’ when there were blood stains on them?
● Why was the family discouraged from doing the second post-mortem?
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]]>Srinagar: As the wait for family members of Sailan massacre for justice enters the 19th year, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday, November 17, 2017, admitted a petition filed by the family members of the victims seeking further investigations in this case.
On the intervening night of 3/4 August 1998, 19 civilians were shot to death at point-blank range in their homes in Sailan village of Surankote Tehsil of district Poonch by four Special Police Officers (SPOs) and personnel of the 9 Para commando battalion. Jammu and Kashmir police officers, including the then Superintendent of Police (Poonch), J.P Singh, were also implicated in the crime and cover-up.
The filing of petition comes after a CBI court in Jammu earlier this year in August had accepted the CBI investigations that declared the victim families as being untruthful and sought closure of this case.
The High Court has issued a notice to the government and CBI to respond.
In September 1998, the government had ordered State Human Rights Commission for spot visit to Sailan village to probe into the killings and the SHRC team in its findings confirmed the role of local policemen and the troopers of 9 Para into the killings.
“It is not difficult but easy to draw conclusion how the occurrence of killing took place and who is responsible for the same. While lifting the dead body of Zakir, SPO army had vowed to wipe twenty persons even before his burial,” SHRC said in its report.
“One glaring fact noted when bloodbath of 19 persons taking place in the house of Ahmad Din, the army picket being only 200 meters away, the army supposed to be vigilant around the clock did not come on the spot to intervene when civilians had been ordered not to move after 6:30 pm. The silence of army by that time of occurrence is not meaningless, uniformed personnel seen moving with torchlight around the scene of occurrence then moving down to board the vehicles or on the main road, leaving none in doubt except bias mind,” the report added.
But even after this damning report, the case stayed in limbo until 2011, when the victim families filed a petition in the Jammu High Court and the court in November 2012 handed over the case to CBI.
Disposing of the petition filed by the victim families seeking the investigation by a Special Investigation Team of the CBI, the Court of Muzaffar Hussain Attar had directed CBI to take over the case for investigation.
“It is provided that CBI will take the matter for investigation and conduct the probe in accordance with law and ensure that justice is meted out to the petitioners,” the court had said.
In September 2015, three years after taking over the investigations, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has pleaded that Sailan massacre case should be closed.
“The order of 25 August 2017 has been challenged as the CBI court ignored material evidence and its decision is arbitrary and findings perverse. The order has resulted in a serious miscarriage of justice,” Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) said in a statement.
“The CBI court accepted the conclusions of the CBI and failed to appreciate the detailed submissions made by the family members of the victims that clearly indict the State forces for the crime and emphasize the need for further investigations that would lead to a charge sheet and a successful prosecution.”
JKCCS further said, “Three eye-witnesses, all family members of the victims, accuse the 4 SPO’s, and Major Gaurav Rishi, for their involvement in the massacre. Further, the CBI court was made aware of 12 witnesses who have vital evidence that support the case but the CBI court in its order does not even refer to this point.”
“Since 1998, the families of the victims have waged a struggle for justice before the State Human Rights Commission, J&K High Court, CBI court and now back before the high court,” it added.
This story was first published on TwoCircles.
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]]>The post Samajwadi Party fields transgender Gulshan Bindu as mayor candidate in Ayodhya appeared first on SabrangIndia.
]]>The SP decision is interesting because this is the first time that mayoral elections are being held in Ayodhya-Faizabad and SP is no doubt taking a small risk in nominating a transgender as its candidate. Born in SItamarhi district of Bihar, 50-year-old Bindu was taken by the transgender community at the age of four and was taken to Delhi where she spent 30 years of her life.
After she was called to Ayodhya by her guru, where now she is spending time since past few years, Gulshan has been part of to the electoral process and has contested elections in 2012 as an independent candidate where she was awarded 22,023 votes. Her slogan at the time was ‘Na Muslim, Na Hindu, Abki Baar Gulshan Bindu’.
She also lost the elections just by 350 votes to BJP’s candidate Vijay Gupta in the corporation elections held before it.
Seeing her popularity in the region, she could be the perfect choice for Samajwadi Party, which is willing to get back into the state at every possible level.
When was asked once by her new role, she said, “We can’t help the society just by tying ghunghroos to our legs.”
Representation of transgender in Indian politics started when Shabnam Mausi elected as a Member of legislative assembly from Madhya Pradesh in 1998. Later on, Madhu Kinnar also got elected as mayor of Raigarh municipal corporation in Chhattisgarh in 2015.
In such a scenario, it would not be surprising that SP’s effort to bring a transgender once again in the scene would help the party, but it will certainly help revoke the transgender political discourse in Uttar Pradesh.
Courtesy: Two Circles
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A photo jounalist covering protest in maisuma area of srinagar photo credits Raqib Hameed Naik
The JKYJA said that the Internet ban not only heightens the state of paranoia amongst the citizens but also affects the work of journalists in Kashmir, adding that the internet ban also attacks the livelihood of dozens of people including professional journalists whose work is dependable on the Internet.
The JKYJA said that the over the past years, the repeated suspension of mobile internet services has become common in Kashmir which reflects the total indifference of government towards the prosperity, development, economic and educational upliftment of Kashmiri people in addition to the promotion of tourism.
Considering the adverse impact on the economic prospects due to the Internet Ban, the JKYJA appealed people from IT sector, tourism, lawyers, traders, entrepreneurs, students and teachers to condemn the Internet ban in Kashmir.
“Depriving people of even basic internet facilities has a significantly disproportionate impact on the fundamental rights of everyone in Kashmir particularly the journalist in the ground,” said JKYJA.
The association has asked the authorities to guarantee freedom of expression in Kashmir and to seek a solution by a democratic process for the issues which lead to the unjustified internet ban. It further said that the association will come with a complete course of action in coming days so as to raise voice against the serious issue of internet ban.
Courtesy: Two Circles
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]]>The seminar, conducted at the KN Uduppa Auditorium of the University focused on the directions and conditions of the Bahujan society and was organised by the SC-ST Students Committee of the University.
Sonkar said, “The BJP is scared of the Bahujan movement.” He alleged that BJP is not letting the ideas and literature of the Bahujan heroes reach the public, and instead the party is using its power to spread wrong information about the Bahujan leaders in the university and the institutes of the country.
“In such a scenario, it is necessary that students should read the actual writing of Bahujan ideologues and leaders. Their ideas will help in defeating the communal and feudalist forces,” said Sonkar, while appealing the listeners to read non-conventional and alternative publications more and more.
Ex-member of the legislative council of UP and special guest at the event Shivbodh Ram talked about the role of OBCs and said, “Some of them oppose us because they do not know many things about us, but the really strange people are the ones who oppose us even after they know everything about us.”
Prof MP Ahirwar, a faculty at BHU and the main speak at the seminar talked about how Kanshi Ram took forward the Bahujan movement started out by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar. He said, “Kanshi Ram took forward the Bahujan movement and ideas led by Jyotiba Phule, Chhatrapati Shahu, and Ambedkar. Kanshi Ram consolidated the Bahujans who were scattered in many parts and changed the course of the Indian politics.
“It is Kanshi Ram’s effect that none can talk about winning elections without the votes of Dalits and Bahujans,” he added.
In his presidential note, Prof Lal Chand talked about the representation of Dalits and Bahujans in institutions.
Pramod Kumar Bangade, Amar Nath Paswan, DK Ojha, Sandeep Gautam, Kumari Anita, Ravindra Prakash Bhartiya, Ajay Kumar, Naresh Ram, and several others put forward their views during the seminar. Pratima Gond, Dhiraj Verma, GP Choudhary, Pratibha Gautam, Varun Kumar Bhaskar, Bacche Lal, Manish Kumar Bhartiya, Dhananjay Bharti, Dheeraj Bharti and several others were present too from the faculty.
Courtesy: Two Circles
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Mohammad Ali, 31 (Raqib Hameed/TCN)
Mohammad Ali, 31, comes from Buthidaung town of Rakhine State. He along with his wife and four girl children live in a hut made up of polythene sheets, wood, and tin in Shram Vihar locality of South Delhi. He fled his town in 2012. This is his story.
“My name is Mohammad Ali and I was 26 when I left my country Myanmar on July 26, 2012. I remember the exact date because I had noted it in a diary. I have studied till class 10. I used to live with my parents, two brothers and two sisters in a two-room house in Buthidaung town.
I used to teach English subject to around 13-17 students up to class 6, earning enough to finance my needs. Parents used to come and request me to not leave their kids until their homework given in school is done.
But things were never good for us. After violence erupted in 2012, the government used to impose curfew in our town from six in the morning till six in the evening. We used to stay inside. Anyone who dared venture outside was shot dead. The guns were especially used against Muslims. The army used to come inside our villages and kill us.
Mostly, they used to target young boys as killing young Rohingya men would ensure that their next generation is wiped out.The army used to raid our houses and take us outside and kill us on the streets. The authorities used to issue notices to the families which had young teenagers as family members to report at the police stations or army camps.
It was their routine that every night, some 6-7 army personnel used to search our houses for young men and most of the time I used to give them a slip and take refuge in the neighbouring houses so as to save my life. Many youths were killed by the army and many of my friends and relatives fell to their bullets.
I remember Salauddin. He was my close friend in the town. He worked as a labourer in the town. He was called by the army to their base and since then I don’t know where he is. But this thing I know for sure he was shot dead because this is how they used to kill the youths: call them to their camps and kill them.
In another town, Maungdaw, seven of my friends were shot dead by the military. They were inside their houses when the army came and burned the structures down to ashes.
I was the only young man in my family. On 26 July, I received a similar notice from the army asking me to present myself at their camp. That was the moment my family asked me to run for my life because they knew if I go, I would meet the same fate as others.
The same night I left home and bid farewell to my family. Everyone was in tears when I left. I stayed in Shawprudaung village. Early morning I left at 5 am, marching through the mountains to reach Bangladesh-Myanmar border. On the way, I met hundreds of youths like me who were running for their lives. We shared food and water on the way.
In Bangladesh, I stayed in a border town. One of my relatives had already arrived in Delhi. I got in touch with him and he asked me to come to Delhi as he felt it was quite peaceful here. After resting for few days, I again set up on my journey to reach India and crossed the West Bengal border.
When I arrived in India, I didn’t know Hindi or any other language. It was very hard for me to communicate with the people here. In Bengal, I didn’t have any money with me to pay for the train ticket to Delhi and fortunately, a man came to know that I was from Myanmar and he bought me a ticket.
After reaching Delhi, I went to Haryana where I learned mason work because I didn’t know the local language here and I wasn’t that much qualified like other Indians to teach. So I left my profession and passion of teaching and started working as a labourer.
In 2013, I met Asmida Khatoon from Shawprudaung whose husband was killed by the army and in fear she fled Myanmar. She has deeply broken and I was also alone without a family so I married her.
I am earning at least 300 rupees a day subject to availability of work. The work doesn’t land up every day. I barely get 15 days work a month, fetching me just enough to make ends meet but at the end of the day, I thank God for keeping me and my family alive and safe in this safe country.
Sometimes, my fellow co-workers are from Indian states and they are really good. They appreciate my work and we eat together during lunch breaks and many times we share our food.
A few weeks ago I came to know that government is planning to deport us. If we are deported from India, then obviously we will go back to Myanmar and everyone knows how we are being slaughtered there.
I want to make it very clear to everyone out there that I am not a terrorist as the government is alleging us. I am just a common man like others, who yearn for peace and try hard to earn two square meals for his family so that they don’t have to sleep empty stomach.
I will go on my own when a solution is arrived at when the government stops killing us. Who doesn’t want to go back to his country?”
Courtesy: Two Circles
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