Shehla Rashid
Social activist (born 1988)
Shehla Rashid
Shehla Rashid Shora is an Indian Kashmiri social activist, former leader of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union and author of the book 'Role Models'. She rose to prominence whilst leading the student agitation calling for the release for Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others who were arrested on charges of sedition in February 2016 for participating and organizing sloganeering in JNU. Shora was vocal about the human rights situation in Kashmir, particularly highlighting the plight of minors held in custody awaiting trial, and had been active since 2010 after organising a youth leadership programme in Kashmir. She played a leading role in organising the 'Occupy UGC movement' and the decision to "camp" at University Grants Commission headquarters to protest the withdrawal of non-NET fellowship. She led the protest march to the Ministry of Human Resources Development to ask for an increase in graduate student stipends. On 16 February 2019 Shora posted a tweet stating that a group...
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