{
 "no": 17,
 "id": "case-17",
 "sk": 20200224,
 "year": 2020,
 "date": "Feb 2020",
 "cat": "Rights and dissent",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Delhi riots. The dead, and the selective dock",
 "stamp": "Instigators free, dissenters jailed",
 "human": {
  "v": "~<b>53</b> killed, most of them Muslim; hundreds injured, thousands displaced",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Homes, shops and mosques gutted across north-east Delhi",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Communal violence tore through north-east Delhi over several days in February 2020, killing around 53 people, the majority of them Muslim.",
 "dodge": "Rights groups documented police inaction and, in places, complicity, while the state built a sweeping conspiracy case that jailed students and activists under the UAPA for years without trial. Several figures who had made openly inflammatory speeches faced no such action. The prosecution's aim looked less like justice than a message.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Amit Shah",
   "r": "Home Minister (Delhi Police)"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "Police deny bias and say the investigation followed the evidence of an organised conspiracy.",
 "alleg": "The claims of police complicity and one-sided prosecution are <em>contested</em>, advanced by rights groups and the accused and denied by the police; several cases remain in court.",
 "alt": "An independent inquiry into the policing, bail and fair trials for undertrials, and even-handed prosecution of incitement whoever spoke it.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Amnesty International briefing on Delhi riots, 2020",
   "url": "https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Investigative-Briefing.pdf",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260304141221/https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Investigative-Briefing.pdf"
  },
  {
   "label": "Delhi HC bail order in UAPA conspiracy case, 2021",
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/73074664/",
   "tier": 1,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20231104181534/https://indiankanoon.org/doc/73074664/"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 53
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-17/"
}