NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A court in central India has sentenced 14 men to life imprisonment for the lynching of a Muslim cattle trader who was beaten to death by a mob that accused him of cow smuggling, marking a rare conviction in cases of vigilante violence that have increasingly targeted Muslims in the […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian opposition leader Mamata Banerjee has accused India’s Home Minister Amit Shah of pressuring her not to reveal identities linked to the murder of Bangladeshi political activist Sharif Osman Hadi. The accusation has revived the debate around one of Bangladesh’s most politically sensitive killings and raised fresh...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — More than two dozen Christians, including a pastor and his pregnant wife, were injured after a mob allegedly attacked a prayer gathering in central India, according to Christian leaders who say violence targeting religious minorities continues to rise in parts of the country. The attack took place in Chhattisgarh stat...
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 […]...
