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@OfficialSauravD
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BREAKING: Jamia Millia Islamia student Safoora Zargar, arrested on 10 April in connection with the Delhi Riots, denied bail by Additional Sessions Court judge Dharmender Rana after four hour long hearing at Patiala Court in Delhi.
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Just happened: A reading of the preamble to the Constitution of India at India Gate. “We, the people of India...”
#Delhi
#CAAProtests
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“Sare Jahan Se Accha”... everyone singing...”Mazhab nahin sikhata aapas mein bair rakhna.”
#CABProtest
#NRCProtest
#Delhi
#JantarMantar
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Aditi, who came from Gurgaon to Mandi House after three hours on the road, says she will protest alone if she has to. “It’s been four months since Kashmir is locked. Now, it is happening to us. Now, we will understand.”
#Delhi
#CAAProtests
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BREAKING: Delhi High Court Judge Rajiv Shakdher grants Safoora Zargar bail in connection with Delhi Riots case.
@HuffPostIndia
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She said to me as a parting note: “I will sit here till blood stops flowing in my veins so the children of this country and the world breathe the air of justice and equality.”
@RanaAyyub
writes
#ShaheenBagh
#TIME100
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"India is for everyone. Things will be good when we live together."
A Hindu toy seller speaks to
@geevishnu
, who reports on Hindu fundamentalists barring Muslims from the annual fair at a Karnataka temple believed to have been built by a Muslim merchant.
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Safoora Zargar is 21 weeks pregnant. Her lawyers argued that she has polycystic ovary syndrome increasing her chances of a miscarriage. Judge Rana said, “Considering the material on record, it cannot be said that there is no prima facie case made out against the accused.”
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Happened today: Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal share a few moments with Gulfisha Fatima outside the Karkardooma district court complex.
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"Young Muslim girls are being told to remove their hijabs — how do I keep silent. My blood boils, not just as a journalist but also as a Muslim and I would say more as a Muslim."
@RanaAyyub
to
@Article14live
on why she won't stop writing or tweeting.
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Speaking to us earlier today,
@AfreenFatima136
, whose father was arrested & their house in Prayagraj demolished, said, "It doesn't feel like my story alone. Any Muslim family today feels like if they speak out, the police may walk in & arrest a loved one."
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Safoora Zargar’s lawyers argued there is no evidence linking anything that she said or did with the
#DelhiRiots
in February. Denying the pregnant woman bail, Judge Rana there was prima facie evidence to show there was “a conspiracy to at least blockade the roads (chakka jam)...”
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Zargar’s lawyers said she was not even in northeast Delhi on 24 Feb. Judge said “mere absence” does not help if prima facie evidence of conspiracy...”evidence of acts and statements made by any one of the conspirators in furtherance of common object is admissible against all.”
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Even though witnesses are shown to be unreliable, false allegations are made & quietly dropped, and police use partial truths & communally tainted arguments,
#UmarKhalid
has been in jail for 1000 days without bail or trial. Read our report.
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Win or lose,
@kanhaiyakumar
makes it clear that Begusarai is home. "I have decided that I will stay here only and will teach in a local college here."
@Pavan_Dahat
reports.
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"If govt cannot stop lynchings, they should remove all judges, close all courts & police stations, hand over power to vigilantes & ask them to govern:”
A teacher, cousin of one of 2 Muslim men burned to death in Haryana, to
@meerfaisal01
&
@vipulizm
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20 years after the Gujarat riots, Muslim families displaced from Naroda Patiya live near a mountain of trash on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, battling disease, toxic chemicals & smoke.
@vipulizm
&
@AQuill_inscribe
capture life in their "unlivable" ghetto.
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"This is a religious war." "If you don’t vote for the BJP, Muslims will read namaz in your home." "If you want to celebrate Holi, wake up Hindus."
How fake news and anti-Muslim hatred are shaping the
#UPElection2022
while the ECI and Big Tech look on.
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After Tejasvi Surya's communal outburst, and 205 mobile numbers getting leaked, young Covid-19 volunteers are being harassed with one question: “Are you Hindu or Muslim?” Women volunteers are being sexually harassed over Whatsapp.
@Suraj_Suresh16
reports.
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Happening now at the Delhi Police headquarters: “Delhi police sharam karo.”
#JamiaMilliaIslamia
#CABProtests
#JamiaProtestsCAB
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Safoora Zargar’s friend called her a “quintessential Jamian” who defies gender stereotypes and “goes beyond for others.” Her husband said, “I love her even more. She is a source of strength for me even though she is the one in jail.”
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Of the 18 Twitter handles that
@RanaAyyub
mentioned in the complaint she lodged at the Saket Police Station in April 2018, HuffPost India found that 14 are still active, 12 offensive messages are still online, and 11 have shown activity in 2020.
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"They are threatening us with the law, but what have they done with the law. They have erased the law."
@Shehla_Rashid
to
@HuffPostIndia
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As
@RanaAyyub
is found to be one of the most brutally targeted women journalists,
@julieposetti
of
@ICFJ
tells us about the failure of tech companies to arrest online violence, leading to psychological injury & offline attacks. "It really is horrendous."
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Ground report: Dhalpur residents claim that 30 or more people, mostly teenagers, and children are missing.
"I have not seen my grandson," said Khairunnessa Begum, whose house was razed on Thursday afternoon. Anupam Chakravartty reports.
#AssamHorror
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"He spat on me. They put a chappal on my face & said lick it. Should an IPS officer do this?"
Released after 21 months, with judges in 8 cases finding no prima facie evidence, social activist Javed Mohammad spoke of the violence & trauma he endured.
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Bail cannot be denied to a man jailed for 4 yrs with no trial in sight. Other accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy case are jailed for even longer. This denial of liberty is a travesty when the assumption is always innocent until proven guilty. Our note
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"We are creating a society that is living in dissatisfaction and it is easy to provoke such a society by using identities. This is the biggest challenge,"
@kanhaiyakumar
tells
@Pavan_Dahat
.
@HuffPostIndia
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Happening now: Women students of Jamia Millia Islamia University march out at 2:00 am after fresh round of
#JamiaShooting
reported.
#CAA_NRCProtests
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3 years & 3 months after his arrest, Umar Khalid is jailed without bail or trial. His bail petition, listed at least 10 times in 8 months, has bounced b/w different Supreme Court judges. Our report on the year he was not heard by India’s highest court.
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"This was a clear case of custodial torture. Despite the judicial magistrate asking the ACP to inquire about Khalid Saifi’s injuries, there had been no response from the police,” said Senior Advocate Rebecca John.
@Article14live
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Alert: Granting bail to Javed Mohammad in 1 case of the 10 June
#Prayagraj
violence, a judicial magistrate said the UP police could not show any criminal history of the accused. Police alleged the "mastermind" wrote an inciting FB post. But he remains jailed in other FIRs/NSA.
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Do read about Ravi Parashar who took down a saffron flag from a burnt mosque during the Delhi Riot. “Man has to help man, doesn’t he,” he said. “It’s not just what 100 or 1,000 people do in a mob. What each person does on his own also counts.”
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11:20pm. More people are joining the protest at the ITO Delhi Police headquarters.
Students chanting: “Delhi Police Jamia Choddo.”
#JamiaMilliaIslamia
#CABProtests
#JamiaProtestsCAB
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Discharging 11 students accused of violence at Jamia on 13 Dec 2019, judge Arul Varma today said, “You had every right to dissent, to voice your opinions..." Our report on the poor investigation, inconsistencies & possible fabrications in the police case.
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6 years after the
#MP
police accused 17 Muslim men of celebrating Pakistan winning a cricket match, a court found the case was fabricated,
@KashifKakvi
&
@rishavtwts
report. The Hindu complainant & witnesses said they were forced to give false statements.
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Do read about this extraordinary Sikh man who ferried dozens of Muslim neighbours to a safe location, going back and forth on his scooty. “We did this to honour humanity...”
#DelhiRiot2020
@HuffPostIndia
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“He was just a Class XI student and loved to play cricket. He didn’t know anything about this whole
#Article370
issue," Osaib Altaf’s father, Mohammad Altaf Marazi, tells
@safwatzgr
. Read
@HuffPostIndia
's ground report from
#Kashmir
.
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Past 12:30 am: Abhipsa Chauhan, Jamia Milia Islamia student, says she is not leaving anytime soon. “I’m not going anywhere. This is just starting,” she says.
#JamiaMilliaIslamia
#JamiaProtestsCAB
#CABProtests
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"I feel exhausted. I am finding no ray of hope, but I have no option other than to hope. Who else will fight for him?"
A year on, Raihanath Kappan, wife of journalist
#SiddiqueKappan
, speaks with
@KAShaji123
about exhaustion, despair, and hope.
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Police of 2 states & 4 magistrates violated a series of guidelines laid down by the
#SupremeCourt
, when
@zoo_bear
was called for questioning in a case in which he was protected from arrest, then held in another case, then 2 more.
@areebuddin14
reports.
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Hundreds of Kashmiri students have fled Uttarakhand. Khawaja Itrat, an engineering student, told
@HuffPostIndia
, “We come here to make our careers, to realize our dreams, but we are always made soft targets. I just want to say that this needs to stop.”
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"One can’t beat the BJP by sitting at home and tweeting."
@asadowaisi
, president
@aimim_national
, is in Lucknow to kickstart the 2022 UP election campaign. State chief
@imshaukatali
tells
@varnit_news
that it is time to get boots on the ground.
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Deepanshu Sahu, a lawyer, who came from Jabalpur to join the
#CAAProtests
in
#Delhi
. He is is standing in the cold wearing a vinyl sheet at
#JantarMantar
. “PM Modi is judging people by their clothes...so, I want to ask Modi, who am I.”
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“You are having keema-paratha on the train. A co-passenger may quietly inform a cow vigilante group that you have beef. A mob could be waiting for you at the next station."
@rohitghosh2
reports how India’s Muslims are changing how they eat, live & work.
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"Even if they called him in the middle of the night in the rains to pick up a fallen tree branch, he would go"
Raman Garase spent 39 yrs as a gardener at IIT-Bombay but was turned away when he asked for gratuity payment on retiring.
@AarefaJohari
reports
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"To say no complaint was lodged is an absolutely lame excuse, with a capital L. The police are meant to work independently & proactively. They don't wait for things to burst at the seams on social media." Former DGP
@vikramsingh112
#HaridwarHateAssembly
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"She used to beat us with a stick and wash it afterwards," an 8-year-old student in Rewa district tells
@PunYaab
, reporting on the practice of untouchability in
#MadhyaPradesh
—the state with the highest caste-crime rate. Watch:
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"We have to get the woman back in our control. We have to save her & Hindu society."
We travelled across western UP to find VHP & Bajrang Dal leaders deploying saam, daam, dand, bhed (violence & blackmail) to break up interfaith couples.
@theintercept
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"Today, we are witnessing the extinction of a species that had survived for millions of years but could not survive mankind." via
@NatGeo
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"They started tracking us every minute after that"
Pledge not to drink water or go to the washroom until targets met
Unachievable targets
Warehouse temperature not maintained
No place to sit
Fainting, dizzy spells
Inside Amazon India's warehouses:
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After seeing patients all day, Kerala ophthalmologist
@drbabukv
retires early before waking up at 3 am to send RTI applications on public health issues.
The doctor, who stopped Patanjali's misleading advertisements, told us citizens can make a difference.
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Many Kashmiris have not spoken with their families since Sunday.
@EjazAyoub13
, a Kashmiri in Mumbai, told
@HuffPostIndia
, "This is a slap in the face of the Kashmiris who respected the Indian Constitution. BJP is giving a steroid to separatism."
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"I can’t think of a democratic country that repeatedly shuts down the internet...This kind of shutdown interferes in a very disproportionate way with the rights of everyone in
#Kashmir
."
@davidakaye
to
@HuffPostIndia
#UNSC
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BREAKING: Additional sessions judge Amitabh Rawat denies bail to political activist
#UmarKhalid
in the
#DelhiRiots
conspiracy case.
Khalid, arrested on 13 September 2020, has been lodged in Tihar jail for more than 1.5 years.
@Article14live
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"I will take that image to my grave."
Since Moinul Haque was stomped on by a police photographer after being shot during evictions of Bengali-speaking Muslim families in Assam in 2021, his brother has waged a fruitless battle for justice.
@arshadreports
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Kismatun, Faizan’s 61-year-old mother, said the police had asked her to change statements in which she placed the onus of Faizan’s death on the police for first assaulting her son in the streets, and then denying him medical treatment.
@anumayhem
reports
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#Replug
"This silence is of fear, not happiness. It’s only when you are intimidated that you are silent. We have been asked to shut up. Muslims are numb right now. The community has gone into a cocoon." Author
@RanaAyyub
after the verdict in November.
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As Umar Khalid returned to the trial court this month to seek bail, we look at the state’s frivolous arguments, the lack of evidence & the "mind-numbing" wait. He is jailed without bail or trial for 3 years & 7 months. To read our weekly notes, subscribe
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My worst experience as a reporter came when I met 2 Vaiphei women who had been gang raped & paraded in their village by a Metei mob on 4 May 2023.
1 year since the start of the violence in Manipur,
@makesyoucakes
's
#fieldnotes
on the loss of her homeland
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.
@free_thinker
says whether
@zoo_bear
& he win the Nobel Peace Prize or not, the attention they have received raises the profile of fact-checkers & foregrounds the misinformation crisis they are battling in India.
@jyotiithakurr
&
@HananZaffar
report.
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"More hurtful is the manner in which it was done. It was done with such unilateralism and ruthlessness. There cannot be a darker day for democracy."
@shahfaesal
tells
@HuffPostIndia
#Article370
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"How many petitions will they defeat?"
Examining the slew of petitions against the
#GyanvapiMosque
, we found them to be identical, drafted by a well-oiled litigation machine set up by the Hindu right to overwhelm Muslim parties & pressure the judiciary.
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Of the 13 Muslim women charged for rioting in the Jafrabad roadblock case, the oldest was born in 1951, and the youngest in 1993. Most of them are homemakers in low-income families. A few work as seamstresses for the garment factories in the area.
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"She is traumatised, badly shaken, extremely dejected & sad. And what to tell her kids?" Lawyer Shobha Gupta tells us she has “no words” to describe the harm done by the
#Gujarat
govt freeing the convicted men who gang-raped
#BilkisBano
in 2002.
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"I thought if they beat me a lot, I will be bedridden for three or four months. I then thought, if I say it, I will not be able to live with the fact that I surrendered before these hate mongers."
@anmolpritamND
on standing his ground.
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Journalist
@SagrikaKissu
was hit with vile messages and abuse for helping Kashmiri Muslims, but she intends to build bridges. "I want to ask the BJP what have you done for the Kashmiri Pandits? You have only used us to negate what Kashmiri Muslims say."
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Happening now: protest near Gate 7 at
#JamiaMilliaIslamia
University. Students ensuring flow of traffic. They are chanting, “Nahin sahenge, nahin chalega.”
#JamiaProtestsCAB
#CABProtests
#JamiaProtest
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"Frankly, it looked like occupied Iraq or occupied Palestine." "My question is what is the Indian media doing? Why are they not visiting these places?"
@kavita_krishnan
tells
@HuffPostIndia
#Kashmir
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As political activist
#UmarKhalid
completes 1,000 days in jail without a trial, we revisited the fabrications, inconsistencies & conjectures that vitiate the
#Delhiriots
conspiracy case & the judicial double standards that deny bail.
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Lawyer after lawyer in today's Delhi riots hearing made the same request — warm clothes for their clients.
“We are out of clothes,” said Meeran Haider, one of the accused. “This is psychologically terrorising,” said Ishrat Jahan, another accused.
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"What are they trying to do to us? What are they doing to the country?"
The Muslim women targeted in the "Sulli Deals" hate crime tell us that the only way forward is fighting back and speaking out.
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Cofounder of
@AltNews
arrested by
#DelhiPolice
. Earlier this month,
@zoo_bear
spoke with
@iyerkavi
about resilience, overcoming fear, his mother's support, & fighting misinformation. "The love I get is equal, or maybe more, than the hate I get," he said.
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After a decade of PM Modi’s govt, the Railways carry fewer passengers, are losing money but are costlier, especially for poorer passengers, packed into proportionately fewer seats in trains run at largely the same speed as before.
@AgaAniket
reports
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"I have to think twice before speaking in front of my best friend from childhood. Everyone has changed. My friends, my batchmates...” India’s first woman Muslim bureaucrat spoke with us about the Ram Temple inauguration & what Muslims feel & fear.
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"They just wrongly accused me & then closed the investigation..."
French filmmaker Valentin Henault, jailed for a month after attending a Dalit protest in Gorakhpur, UP, told
@omar7rashid
police criminalised him/his work only because he was a foreigner.
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"We always celebrate Independence Day, but it feels like a formality, right now. Why is my husband, a doctor, under NSA? If we speak out, if we say anything but ‘yes, yes’ to the government, we are crushed,” said Shabista Khan, Kafeel Khan's wife.
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Interview: "For saving my nation, for saving my Constitution, I need to be in an ecosystem that has the potential to take on the RSS & the BJP. Among all the existing mainstream platforms, the Congress is the biggest force of opposition."
@jigneshmevani80
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A Delhi police investigating officer fabricated a rioting case against 9 Muslim men, using planted witnesses & concocted statements to frame them when the attack was on a Muslim shop & carried out by a Hindu mob during the Delhi riots. Read our report.
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Jailed without bail or trial for 3 years, Umar Khalid’s bail plea has been listed 8 times before the Supreme Court since May. The matter was adjourned again today, this time for a month. In August, we reported the long delay before the apex court that calls for speedy justice.
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Sajid Nahvi, who started the largest online marketplace of Kashmiri art & craft products, said, "In the past 7 years, Flipkart became a billion-dollar company. But we in Kashmir are still struggling to survive ..."
@MaqboolMajid
reports for
@HuffPostIndia
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"It started with anger, then shock, then despair, and then numbness,"
@RanaAyyub
tells
@HuffPostIndia
#AyodhyaVerdict
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"I’ve seen my son dying... I want justice. I won’t rest," Kismatun told us one year after policemen were caught on camera beating, hurling anti-Muslim slurs & forcing him to sing the national anthem
4+ yrs on, Delhi High Court today ordered a CBI probe
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“Muslims in India feel like political orphans,”
@UmarKhalidJNU
tells
@HuffPostIndia
. “The Hindu Rashtra is an unending project. It does not have a stop point.”
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Kashmir’s local administration has arm-twisted street vendors to ply the streets, and jailed store owners for refusing to stay open, police sources told
@HuffPostIndia
. "They want to show the world that everything is normal, but nothing is normal."
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300 habeas corpus petitions have been filed by desperate families trying to track down their jailed relatives, but the Modi govt has not responded to a single one since 5th Aug, lawyers in Kashmir tell
@HuffPostIndia
. “The situation is more than hellish.”
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"After more than 30 yrs, I find myself unemployable, in the mainstream media at least. That's because I refuse to compromise on my ideals of journalism that makes a difference & functions without fear or favour." Do listen to
@samar11
's message & subscribe
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Tablighi Jamaat member Tabrez Khan is married to a Hindu and even handles the accounts for the local temple. But when he returned from the hospital, Khan said that his grocer & chemist refused to serve him. “...this hate is as crushing as the coronavirus."
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"IIT doesn’t care, the govt doesn’t care, the judiciary doesn’t care. How do we hold these institutes accountable?"
From 2015 to 2020, 11 IIT Bombay departments didn't admit a single ST candidate, RTIs filed by
@AppscIITb
students show systemic casteism.
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We spoke with Mamta and Dilip Singh, who lost their son Manish in the communal violence. They want no part in a blame game. Mamta said, “Hindus and Muslims have not died. Innocents have died.” Dilip said, “A crowd doesn’t have a face.”
@HuffPostIndia
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"Bulldozing their will," political activist Shehla Rashid tells
@HuffPostIndia
. "Let there be a Legislative Assembly and an elected government. They cannot do this without consulting the government of J&K."
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8 workers died in 10 days in UP in May due to manual scavenging, a practice banned in 2013. Most were cleaning septic tanks in homes. 4 died in Delhi, 3 in Rajasthan
45% Delhi households are not connected to sewer lines. Only 8-9% connected in UP. Watch:
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"This is not a liberal country nor do most Indians see liberalism as a virtue,"
@Rukmini
wrote in her book about what data tells us about India. In this interview, she explains that age, education, urbanisation & income are not making things better.
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Deepanshu Sahu traveled over 2000 kms to make a stand for secularism. “Tears came into my eyes as I was changing into the sheet. Was I crazy to stand without my clothes in the street? Was it going to make any difference?”
#CAA_NRC_Protests
@HuffPostIndia
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More than the batons striking her back,
@sadafjafar
said it was their language that betrayed just how communal the UP Police is. "I was completely dehumanised. Thanks to this BJP govt, I know the extent to which a person can be dehumanised.”
@HuffPostIndia
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In our year-end interview,
@jigneshmevani80
, a twice-elected MLA from Gujarat, spoke with us about winning elections without hate and division & crowdfunding his campaign to fight a "giant corporate entity".
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"Hindutva ke liye gardan katva dengay", "Jihadi takat ukhaad pheko”: slogans used at the
#Haryana
’s
#Manesar
panchayat made Muslim migrants from Assam insecure and vulnerable to hate crimes. Many fled their homes.
@tarushi_aswani
reports.
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