Monthly Archives: September 2020
“Policemen sat on their chests, burnt their genitals with lighter,” lawyer...
By Sukanya Roy, TwoCircles.net
Palakkad: On the evening of 24 August, Palakkad North Division police turned up at the house of two brothers, Abdurrahman (18)...
RSS to go by what ‘samaaj’ thinks on Kashi & Mathura...
DK Singh
New Delhi: With Hindu seers reviving the demand for the removal of mosques from “holy sites” in Kashi (Varanasi) and Mathura, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak...
It should be obvious why the authorities want to target journalists...
Rohan Venkatramakrishnan
It is difficult to see the First Information Reports filed against Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking site AltNews, as anything but the targeting of a...
Framed and hanged: How the Indian state persecutes dissent
Apoorvanand
Over the past few months, I have increasingly felt as if I am becoming a character in a Kafkaesque drama. It all started in...
Three Cops Booked for Murder, Three Others Suspended Over UP Youth’s...
Six police personnel, including an SHO, were suspended and three of them booked for murder for their alleged roles in the custodial death of...
India: How a Muslim doctor was incarcerated for raising his voice
Usaid Siddiqui
An Indian doctor who was jailed for more than seven months for criticising a controversial citizenship law was released on Tuesday night after...
Right wing groups film minors, give false ‘love Jihad’ angle to...
Archit Mehta
Since September 3, several Twitter and Facebook users have posted multiple videos where members of right-wing fringe groups Sanskriti Bachao Manch and Bajrang...
UP Police Arrests Muslim Odisha Villager for Sedition After VHP Member’s...
Ashutosh Mishra
Bhubaneswar: A team of Uttar Pradesh police has arrested and taken on transit remand a 42-year-old Muslim man from a Cuttack village, based on...
What does a job have to do with my religious identity:...
Naqshab Nisar
Ghazala Ahmad, a final year Mass Communication at Aligarh Muslim University was denied a job as a news anchor at a Delhi-based Hindi...
45-yr-old Dalit Man Lynched in UP Over Rumour That He Was...
By QAZI FARAZ AHMAD
In a shocking incident, a man was beaten to death by a mob in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district on Tuesday. The...
MP: NSA For Muharram Mourners, No Action Against BJP MLA For...
Rishav Raj Singh
Bhopal: Former Indore corporator Usman Patel was booked under the stringent National Security Act, for having allegedly led a Muharram procession on August...
‘Say Jai Shri Ram,’ Said Killers of Muslim Man in NCR
Ismat Ara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=oHVnRlY7CiU&feature=emb_title
This first appeared in 'The Wire' on September 8, 2020 here.
UP police accused of another brutal assault on Muslim man on...
By SUNIL KASHYAP
In the early hours of 30 August, personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Police brutally assaulted Salim Qureshi, a 55-year-old fruit seller, at...
