Afreen Fatima
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{{Short description|Indian activist}}
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| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Student leader
| organization = Fraternity Movement
| title = National Secretary
| alma_mater = Jawaharlal Nehru University
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| party = Fraternity Movement
| known_for = Anti-CAA protests, activism for representation and identity assertion
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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.{{Cite magazine |date=5 July 2022 |title=Afreen Fatima |url=https://time.com/author/afreen-fatima/ |access-date=2022-08-03 |magazine=Time |language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/13/act-of-vendetta-afreen-fatima-on-her-house-bulldozed-in-india|title=India activist Afreen Fatima says her house bulldozed 'illegally'|first=Zafar|last=Aafaq|publisher=Al Jazeera| date=13 June 2022 | accessdate=10 December 2022}}
Biography
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,{{Cite web|last=Ghosh|first=Shaunak|title=Tectonic Shift: BAPSA-Fraternity Alliance in the JNU elections|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2019/09/13/tectonic-shift-bapsa-fraternity-alliance-in-the-jnu-elections|access-date=2022-08-02|website=Newslaundry|date=13 September 2019 }} she strengthened the call of "unity of the oppressed" and raised the issues of representation, discrimination and identity assertion.{{Cite web|title=Why JNU's Afreen Fatima can't be cowed down by Left or Right|url=https://www.onmanorama.com/career-and-campus/top-news/2019/09/14/jnu-campus-council-election-afreen-fathima-delhi.html|access-date=2022-08-02|website=OnManorama|archive-date=15 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615002936/https://www.onmanorama.com/career-and-campus/top-news/2019/09/14/jnu-campus-council-election-afreen-fathima-delhi.html|url-status=live}} Formerly, she has been the elected president of Women's College Students' Union at the Aligarh Muslim University for the session 2018-19.{{Cite web|title=AMUSU Election 2018: Women's College Students' Union results declared, Afreen Fatima elected president|url=https://newsd.in/amusu-election-2018-womens-college-students-union-results-declared/|access-date=2022-08-02|website=Newsd.in|date=4 November 2018 |language=en}} She is known to have actively participated in the anti-CAA protests that started in 2019.{{Cite web|title=CAA stir: Student leaders from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh to be part of 'Inquilab Morcha'|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/dec/27/caa-stir-student-leaders-from-delhi-uttar-pradesh-to-be-part-of-inquilab-morcha-2081604.html|access-date=2022-08-02|website=The New Indian Express|date=27 December 2019 }} She faced several days long media trial after a small part of her speech was tweeted by BJP's national spokesman Sambit Patra.{{Cite web|title=कौन हैं आफ़रीन फातिमा, जिनके वायरल वीडियो को संबित पात्रा ने 'ज़हर की खेती' कहा है?|url=https://www.thelallantop.com/oddnaari/afreen-fatima-who-is-this-jnu-student-who-went-viral-after-sambit-patras-tweet/|access-date=2022-08-02|website=LallanTop - News with most viral and Social Sharing Indian content on the web in Hindi|language=hi}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/world/asia/prophet-muhammad-protests-india.html|title=Protests Over Prophet Muhammad Comments Turn Deadly in India|first1=Emily|last1=Schmall|first2=Suhasini|last2=Raj|newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 June 2022}}
She works as a researcher at The Polis Project, a research and journalism organization.{{Cite web |date=2021-02-10 |title=About - The Polis Project |url=https://www.thepolisproject.com/about/ |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=The Polis Project |language=en-GB}}