Safoora Zargar
Safoora Zargar (born 1993) is an Indian student activist leader from KISTWAR, JAMMU AND KASMIR, best known for her role in the CAA PROTEST. She is an M. Phil student of JAMIA millia islamia and media coordinator of the Jamia Coordination Committee. Zargar was in custody from 10 April until 24 June 2020, accused of being part of a conspiracy to cause riots and of making an inflammatory speech on 23 February 2020. Delhi Police said that Zargar was involved in a "sinister design" with the "objective of uprooting a democratically elected government. The Delhi High Court granted Zargar bail at the fourth application on 23 June 2020,and she was released late on 24 June 2020.
ControversieS
After the arrest of Safoora Zargar, several people on social media started sharing unrelated images and screen captures from videos falsely claimed to be Zargar. She was three months pregnant at the time of her arrest. The most viral allegation which targeted her pregnancy alleged that she was pregnant by Hindus at Shaheen Bagh. The people shared a couple sex video claiming that Safoora Zargar was in the video, but the fact checking website ALT NEWS, revealed that all the allegations made were fake and baseless.The video was taken from PORN HUB and the woman in the video was PornHub model Selena Banks.
Other social media posts targeting Safoora Zargar for her marital status and pregnancy occurred, with large numbers of individuals claiming that she was unmarried and that her pregnancy was discovered when she was lodged in Tihar Jail. fact checked all the allegations, which were revealed to be fake.It has been suggested that the online campaigns against her were MISOGNY and Islamophobia.Delhi Police hadn't taken any action against the online vilification campaigns and trolls as of 20th May 2020.
Personal lifE
Zargar was interviewed in May 2018. She was described as lacking typical Kashmiri features, or a Kashmiri accent due to being raised mostly in Delhi. She was comfortable speaking Hindi. She said that she usually did not reveal that she was Kashmiri because "People tend to judge me or look at me differently the moment I talk about my Kashmiri identity."
On 6 October 2018, Safoora Zargar married Saboor Ahmed Sirwal in Kishtwar.It was an arranged marriage.When she was interviewed in May 2018, she said that she planned to get married in September.
