NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — At least 50 Muslims were killed in extrajudicial incidents across India in 2025, including 27 deaths attributed to Hindu extremist violence and dozens linked to police and other state security forces, according to new documentation compiled by a regional human rights group. The findings are detailed in data released b...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities detained a London-based British doctor of Indian origin at Mumbai airport this weekend over social media posts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, prompting opposition leaders to warn of growing repression of political dissent. Dr. Sangram Patil, a British...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu far-right groups in northern India have launched protests against a Muslim-owned private school in Uttar Pradesh after a video showing children receiving Islamic religious lessons in Urdu circulated on social media, triggering demands for punitive state action against an institution operating fully within the la...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Several Muslim families in India’s northeastern state of Tripura were forced to flee their neighborhoods over the weekend after Hindu extremists set fire to homes, businesses and a mosque, heightening fears of communal violence and institutional failure. According to Maktoob Media, the attacks took place in the Fatikr...
GENEVA, Switzerland (MNTV) — The World Uyghur Congress has warned that repression linked to China’s policies toward the Uyghur minority is increasingly extending beyond China’s borders, pointing to recent legal cases in Central Asia and tightly controlled diaspora engagement involving Uyghurs living abroad. In a recent statement, the group sai...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (MNTV) — In the sprawling refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, where more than one million Rohingya live in overcrowded and fragile conditions, news from a courtroom thousands of kilometers away has stirred cautious hope. As hearings open at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Rohingya refugees are closely f...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (MNTV) – The International Court of Justice on Monday opened public hearings in a landmark genocide case concerning atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma, marking a critical phase in one of the most closely watched international legal proceedings of the past decade. The hearings, held at the ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Amnesty International India has criticized the Indian Supreme Court’s decision to deny bail to Muslim activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, saying the ruling entrenches a dangerous pattern in which prolonged pre-trial detention is becoming normalized in India. Reacting to the order, Amnesty said it welcomed the cou...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A human rights organization has petitioned India’s National Human Rights Commission over the continued detention of a 20-year-old Rohingya refugee and her five-month-old infant, weeks after she completed a court-mandated prison sentence for immigration-related offenses. The appeal was filed by Banglar Manabadhikar Sur...
BEIJING, China (MNTV) — A traditional Uyghur folk song once performed at weddings and family celebrations has become grounds for imprisonment, highlighting a renewed campaign to suppress cultural and religious identity in East Turkistan, the Uyghur homeland administered by China as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Details of the crackdow...
