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Betwa Sharma

6 months

Dear all, @Article14live is built on the work of independent journalists. This #Diwali , we asked reporters what is unique about writing for us. Do listen. Subscribe/gift a subscription. Thanks, @kaushikrj6 , @nikita_jain15 & @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. @HuffPostIndia

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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

Bilkis: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020

Find out why Bilkis is on this year’s list

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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.

Why Journalist Rana Ayyub, Barred By The Govt From Leaving The Country, Won't Stop Writing Or...

Journalist Rana Ayyub, a relentless critic of the Modi government, who has dedicatedly called attention to the persecution of Muslims in India, was stopped from flying out of the country on 29 March...

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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."

‘It Could Happen To Any Muslim Family’: A Student Activist On Her Father’s Arrest & Demolition Of...

After protests against Islamophobic slurs by a former Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson turned violent in some places, the government of chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh demolished...

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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.

1000 Days Without Trial Or Bail For Umar Khalid, Denied Bail Despite False Allegations, Fabricati...

PhD student Umar Khalid completes 1,000 days in jail without a trial, Article 14 revisited the fabrications, inconsistencies and conjectures that vitiate the Delhi riots conspiracy case but are still...

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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.

20 Years After Gujarat Riots, Muslim Survivors From Naroda Patiya Live Near A Mountain Of Trash

Twenty years after being displaced from Naroda Patiya, the site of the worst massacres of the Gujarat riots, Muslim families live near a mountain of trash on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, battling...

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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."

What 8.5 Million Tweets Targeting Rana Ayyub Tell Us About Online Violence & The Failure To Stop It

As journalist Rana Ayyub is found to be one of the most brutally targeted women journalists on Twitter, Julie Posetti, deputy vice president at the Washington DC-based International Center for...

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"The love I get is equal, or maybe more, than the hate I get," @zoo_bear to @iyerkavi on resilience, overcoming fear, his mother's support, fighting misinformation & bolstering @AltNews while battling online abuse, threats of violence & criminal cases.

A Fact Checker Faces Threats, Criminal Cases For Drawing Attention To Hate Speech By Hindu Extrem...

Mohammed Zubair—who brought global attention to the abuse of Islam’s Prophet by a now-suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson—faces five criminal cases, the latest for referring to three Hindu...

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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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"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.

3 Years Since Delhi Police Accused Jamia Students Of Rioting, Chargesheets Reveal They May Have No...

A violent protest in New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University three years ago on 13 December 2019 started the two-month agitation against India’s contentious new citizenship law. Now, as the State...

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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

How This Sikh Man Rescued Dozens Of Delhi Riot Victims On His Motorbike

Mohinder Singh took exceptional steps to ensure the safety of residents in one of the worst-hit neighbourhoods in the Delhi Riots.

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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.

How Delhi, UP Police & Judges Violated SC Guidelines In Arresting Alt News Co-Founder Mohd Zubair

Police of two states & four magistrates violated a series of guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court, when Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair was called for questioning in a case in which he was...

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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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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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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.

The Myriad Things Indian Muslims Are Changing To Survive Overt & Covert Hostility In Their Changing...

From giving up the food they love to where they pray to even concealing interfaith marriages, Indian Muslims are changing how they eat, talk, work and other practices and customs fundamental to their...

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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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"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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"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

Hindu Vigilantes Work With Police to Enforce “Love Jihad” Law in North India

Hindu nationalists in Uttar Pradesh are using an anti-conversion law to break up interfaith couples and legitimate a conspiracy theory against Muslims.

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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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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.

Meet The Doctor Who Challenged Patanjali’s Misleading Advertisements & Won

Babu K V, a doctor from Kerala, fought a year-long battle to stop misleading advertising by Patanjali Ayurved Limited featuring yoga guru Baba Ramdev. Even as the union government and the state...

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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

Field Notes: A Homeland Lost-A Journalist Chronicles How Her Manipur Became A Far Country

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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.

What The Nobel Peace Prize Buzz Means For The Misinformation Battle In India, A Fact Checker...

On 4 October, an article in Time, listing fact-checkers Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair as 'favourites' to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, delighted their legions of supporters while sending...

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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.

‘We Are All Bilkis’: Lawyer Of 2002 Gangrape Survivor Says Onus To Fix Gujarat Remission Order Is...

Advocate Shobha Gupta said she had ‘no words’ to describe the harm done by the Gujarat government’s decision to free the 11 men convicted for gang-raping her client Bilkis Bano and murdering 14...

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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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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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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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"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.

1000 Days Without Trial Or Bail For Umar Khalid, Denied Bail Despite False Allegations, Fabricati...

PhD student Umar Khalid completes 1,000 days in jail without a trial, Article 14 revisited the fabrications, inconsistencies and conjectures that vitiate the Delhi riots conspiracy case but are still...

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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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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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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.

A Fact Checker Faces Threats, Criminal Cases For Drawing Attention To Hate Speech By Hindu Extrem...

Mohammed Zubair—who brought global attention to the abuse of Islam’s Prophet by a now-suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson—faces five criminal cases, the latest for referring to three Hindu...

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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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"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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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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“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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2 years

"Everybody installed Twitter & began to follow Live Law...That is how they got to know how the world was supporting me...There was more positive news than negative news about me." @zoo_bear to @iyerkavi about the show of strength that took him by surprise.

They Know I Won’t Stop Doing What I Do: Fact-Checker Zubair On His Arrest, Rumour-Driven Interrog...

Innuendo, whatsapp forwards, rumour and Hindu right-wing conspiracy theories were used by Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police during interrogation of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, he told us in an...

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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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2 years

"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.

India Far Less Committed to Liberal Values Than Imagined, Data Shows

Age, income and wealth make no difference to regressive attitudes, the data reveals, begging the question of what will: Betwa Sharma in conversation with data journalist Rukmini S. By Betwa Sharma...

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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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1 year

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".

Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani On Winning Elections Without Hate & Division

Jignesh Mevani, a twice-elected legislator from Gujarat, is a vocal critic of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a time when the ruling party deploys investigating...

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2 years

"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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5 years

Every day, Sanjay Kumar ferries at least one dead child. The hardest part of his job, he says, is hearing parents cry over their children as he drives them home. “Hearing them cry kills my spirit. No one cares about dying children in this country.”

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N & her brother begged the police to save their father from the mob...as the mob began tearing her clothes off, the mob smashed wooden logs on N's brother's body...the policemen fled @makesyoucakes accessed the #Manipur viral video/gangrape chargesheet

Manipur Police, Extremists Not Questioned Despite Viral Video Probe That Reveals Complicity in...

When three women were gangraped and the father and brother of one murdered by a mob from Manipur’s majority Meitei, and the ordeal converted into a viral video in June 2023, it epitomised to many the...

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2 years

“Every Muslim understands what this ‘ban’ means, but we can’t even express our anger. They are now using our religion to attack the bread we eat.” Daily wager Mehfooz Alam spoke with @tarushi_aswani about the fallout of south Delhi's so-called #meatban .

Muslim Vendors Scarred By Delhi’s So-Called Meat Ban, Terrified & Confused About The Future

As the Hindu-right wing begins acting on its agenda for the economic and social segregation of Muslims in India, the ban on the sale of meat announced by the south Delhi mayor, while not implemented,...

article-14.com

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5 years

Former JNU students: "BJP’s war on students is continuing"... "I hope the media trial can come to an end"... "This government is in panic mode"... "We were in it together in being framed and tarnished, we will face it together."

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The torture described included repeated violent assault, forced stripping, sleep deprivation..."I’ve lost track of how many times I was beaten,” said a 13-year-old. "I’ve been beaten so badly I need help to walk or eat.” @Amannama reports @HuffPostIndia

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BREAKING: #Kashmirwallah editor #FahadShah today granted bail by J&K High Court in the case of the “seditious” & “highly provocative” article published in Nov 2011. This year, we reported why it was an exercise in assumptions with little basis in fact.

500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor...

article-14.com

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1 year

"There is a lot of fear…it happened in Nalanda today, tomorrow it could be Patna & then somewhere else." Savita Ali, Patna High Court lawyer, to @meerfaisal & @ubairulhameed on months of anti-Muslim violence in Bihar & the apathy of the ruling alliance.

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6 years

Asma Khan: “Is there anything seditious in my post? They did not even ask for my explanation and rusticated me." via @IndianExpress

Bhopal student who took on ABVP rusticated over Facebook post

Part of group that won college polls; her post called teachers unpatriotic for not allowing programme.

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