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Policemen Are Ordinary Citizens. They Should Know Their Boundaries And People...

The news media has to do a better job of educating citizens of their rights. The police officers need to know boundaries, and there...

Madhya Pradesh Police Apologise for Beating Lawyer, ‘We Thought You Were...

New Delhi: In Madhya Pradesh’s Betul, an incident which is striking in its example of Islamophobia and police highhandedness has come to light. On March...

After Mob Attacks and Trade Boycott, Muslims Being Forced to Convert...

 NEW DELHI, May 14—After a hate campaign launched by print, electronic and digital media against Muslims in the wake of the coronavirus spread that...

India’s ‘Modern-Day Fascism’ Under the International Scanner: Sikhs Applaud Robust Intervention

By: Ranjit Singh Srai Recent interventions from noteworthy international voices have given Hindutva’s fanatical protagonists a timely reminder that, despite their domination of the political...

In Bijnor, Muslim villagers allege UP police harassed them on suspicion...

By  SUNIL KASHYAP AND ZUBAIR KHAN Members of seven Muslim households in Faridpur Kazi in Uttar Pradesh told us that between 7.30 pm and 8.30 pm on...

India Coronavirus: Pregnant student Safoora Zargar at risk in jail

It was 2:30 in the afternoon when a group of policemen arrived at Safoora Zargar's home in south-east Delhi. The 27-year-old sociology student at the...

Jharkhand Man Lynched For Allegedly Stealing Goat, Case Against Him Too

Villagers claim the two men were spotted cutting up the goat outside the village by some men who surrounded them and started calling them...

‘I coloured my sword red’: Meet Delhi rioters who say they...

Hindu rioters spoke openly about inflicting violence on Muslims. The smile never went off Nishant Kumar’s face. Only his voice quivered with excitement as he...

UP Police arrested me, gave electric shocks for legal aid to...

Mohammad Faisal, a Rajasthan-based lawyer has claimed that he was wrongly picked by the SOG team of Uttar Pradesh Police from inside the Kairana...

Mosques turned into Temples, the other side of history

Every now and then a local community “leader with predilections towards Hindutva comes forward with a claim that a particular mosque was built on...

In a UP village, Muslims find no work

ByIndiaSpend Team Independent journalist Jigyasa Mishra, who has traversed seven districts in Uttar Pradesh since May 12, stopped at Shiv Ganj village in Kanpur to...

Indian media accused of Islamophobia for its coronavirus coverage

By  Anna MM Vetticad New Delhi, India – “During this lockdown, why does every crowd gather only near mosques?” journalist Arnab Goswami recently asked on the...

Tripura Muslim man attacked by locals in Tripura

A Muslim man in Tripura was thrashed and threatened to convert religion in order to reside in the region. This incident took place on...

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