NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Bengali-speaking Muslims were disproportionately rounded up, detained and forced to prove their Indian citizenship during an immigration crackdown in southern India, according to a new fact-finding report that accuses police of turning a drive against undocumented foreigners into identity-based profiling. The report, ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslims in India’s northeastern Manipur state have taken to the streets against the appointment of non-Muslims to a body that administers Islamic religious and charitable properties, bringing local anger over the Waqf Board into a wider national battle over government intervention in Muslim institutions. Hundreds of p...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim seminary student was allegedly subjected to a violent religiously targeted assault aboard a moving train in northern India, with a group of men grabbing his beard, abusing his Muslim identity and attempting to force alcohol into his mouth before trying to throw him from the carriage. Mohammad Muntazir, [&hell...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit doctoral scholar and her mother have launched a protest at a university in India’s southern Kerala state, accusing faculty members of caste and gender discrimination that allegedly subjected her to degrading work while obstructing her academic research for more than a year. Anagha Shashi, an environmenta...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Anger is growing among Christians and other minority groups in India’s western Maharashtra state over a controversial anti-conversion law passed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, with analysts warning that its sweeping provisions could be used to target legitimate religious activity...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit journalist in northern India was allegedly beaten, targeted with caste slurs and attacked with a pointed weapon while reporting at a government office, before his alleged assailants followed him to a health center and attacked him again as he received treatment. Journalist Lakhan Salvi was covering villagers s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior leader of a Hindu extremist group has triggered outrage in India after publicly portraying Muslims as habitual land grabbers and threatening them with bulldozers, invoking a symbol that has become closely associated with the demolition of Muslim homes, businesses and religious properties. Raghavendra Pratap S...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — A U.S. federal religious freedom watchdog has urged Washington to impose targeted sanctions on members of India’s Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh accused of involvement in religious freedom violations, bringing renewed scrutiny to the powerful organization ahead of its chief Mohan Bhagwat’s planned visit to th...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Six Christians have been jailed in eastern India after a Hindu mob stormed a Sunday prayer gathering inside a private home, assaulted worshippers and then accused them of carrying out religious conversions. Four women were sent to judicial custody and two men to police custody following the Aug. 16 attack […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The demolition of much of a decades-old Islamic school in northern India has triggered protests and accusations of anti-Muslim discrimination, with opposition leaders condemning the bulldozer action as unconstitutional and part of a wider climate of hostility toward Muslims. Bulldozers demolished seven classrooms, a s...
