COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (MNTV) — Thousands of Tamil tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka are facing exploitation and abuse that may amount to forced labor, according to a new report by Amnesty International, which accused employers and state institutions of systematically failing one of the country’s most marginalized communities. The report, publis...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An elderly Muslim man in northern India was arrested and publicly humiliated after criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, with videos circulating online showing him holding his ears and apologizing outside a police station following his detention. The man, identified...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A young Dalit man in western India was allegedly stripped, beaten and dragged behind a tractor in an attack that has renewed attention on persistent caste-based violence despite decades of legal protections. The victim, identified as Pawan Meghwal, belongs to the Dalit community — historically marginalized groups once...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Two Muslim men were allegedly lynched by a mob in India’s northeastern state of Assam after villagers accused them of attempting to steal cattle, in latest incident raising concerns over anti-Muslim mob violence linked to cow protection politics. Police claimed the attack took place early May 22 in remote Bhalukpong [...
YANGON, Myanmar (MNTV) — Rohingya residents in western Myanmar’s Maungdaw Township have accused the militant outfit Arakan Army and its political wing, the United League of Arakan, of extorting large sums of money from Muslim villages while simultaneously forcing villagers into unpaid labor for road construction projects. According to local re...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Minority groups in northern India staged a major protest Wednesday against escalating anti-Muslim and anti-Christian crackdowns, with demonstrators accusing authorities of enabling bulldozer demolitions, mob violence and mass incarceration targeting religious minorities under Hindu nationalist politics. The protest to...
YANGON, Myanmar (MNTV) — Rohingya women and girls in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are facing escalating sexual violence, arbitrary detention and intimidation under the control of the Arakan Army, according to a new report released Thursday by the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK). The report warns that patterns of abuse historically associat...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — A Bangladeshi man was killed after India’s Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire near the Bangladesh frontier, in the latest deadly shooting along one of South Asia’s most heavily militarized borders. The killing took place near the Bonchowki border area in northern Bangladesh’s Lalmonirhat district, according to B...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A civil rights organization has launched a nationwide digital platform to track hate crimes and hate speech in India, amid growing concerns that such incidents are underreported or misclassified in official records. The Association for the Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) said the platform allows citizens to submit d...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Opposition lawmakers in India have demanded a high-level investigation into the death of a Muslim cleric who was found near railway tracks after an alleged assault on a moving train, escalating pressure on authorities to address conflicting accounts of the incident. Maulana Tousif Raza Mazhari, 30, from Bihar state, w...
