Young Tamil poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem was controversially arrested on May 16, 2020 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) on the allegations of sowing Islamic extremism through his anthology ‘Navarasam’ penned in Tamil and of having a connection with lawyer and Human Rights Activist Hejaaz Hizbullah. After being detained for more than 18 months Jazeem was bailed out in December last year. In an interview with the Daily Mirror he revealed that he endured harsh conditions and suffered physical and mental torture at the hands of the interrogators during his detention while discussing draconian nature of the PTA and how extremism is sown and used as a weapon by narrow-minded politicians to remain in power.
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