NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 15-year-old Muslim girl in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted by a man who police say manipulated her into drugging her own family before carrying out the attack with accomplices. According to The Observer Post, the case involves a teenager from Bijnor district who [&he...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (MNTV) – A criminal complaint accusing Myanmar’s president Min Aung Hlaing of genocide has been formally filed in Indonesia, targeting his alleged role in atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims. The case was submitted to Indonesia’s Attorney General by a coalition of civil society organizations, which accuse the milit...
MURSHIDABAD, India (MNTV) — Police in India’s eastern West Bengal state have detained around 30 people, including a local leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), following violent clashes between Hindu groups and Muslim residents during a Ram Navami procession in Murshidabad district, authorities said. The violence broke out after ten...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A young Dalit man was stabbed to death in a village near the northern Indian city of Lucknow after an argument during Holi celebrations, in a case that has drawn renewed attention to caste discrimination that continues to shape social relations in parts of rural India. The victim, Suraj Gautam, […]
BEIJING, China (MNTV) — Authorities in China’s far-western region known as East Turkistan have detained several Uyghurs for allegedly observing the Ramadan fast, according to a Uyghur advocacy group and reports from exile media outlets, highlighting ongoing restrictions on Islamic religious practices in the region. The Munich-based World Uyghu...
MALE, Maldives (MNTV) — Maldives has brought into force sweeping amendments to its Drugs Act that introduce the death penalty for certain large-scale drug trafficking offenses, marking one of the most severe anti-narcotics measures adopted in South Asia. The amended law took effect on Saturday, months after the country’s parliament approved th...
EL-FASHER, Sudan (MNTV) — More than 6,000 people were killed over three days in late October when Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias launched a final offensive to seize the city of el-Fasher in the Darfur region, the United Nations said Friday. A 29-page report by the U.N. Human Rights Office said […]...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) – US Justice Department’s letter explaining redactions in newly released files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has put a spotlight on an extensive list of public figures named in the documents, intensifying criticism from lawmakers who say the approach obscures rather than clarifies accountability. The six-page...
TEL AVIV, Israel (MNTV) — The political documentary play “The Last Play in Gaza,” directed by anti-Zionist Israeli playwright Einat Weizman, was denied a visa to perform at the ITFOK festival in Kerala, India, exposing the growing complicity of India in silencing criticism of Israel’s occupation policies. Weizman said the play, which addresses...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Six years after the 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi, a court in the Indian capital has summoned two police personnel in connection with the custodial killing of a young Muslim man who was publicly assaulted, humiliated, and denied medical care during the violence. On Feb. 4, an Additional Chief Judicial […]
