NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian police have arrested twelve Muslim men associated with the Tablighi Jamaat in the western state of Rajasthan, accusing them of conducting religious outreach without prior authorization and invoking public order concerns — a move that rights advocates say reflects the expanding criminalization of Muslim religiou...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — A U.S.-based research group has documented a large-scale, coordinated misinformation campaign linked to India that has targeted Bangladesh in the run-up to its national election, amplifying false claims of widespread violence against religious minorities. The findings come as Bangladesh prepares for its first parliam...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has come under intense scrutiny after its Assam unit shared a video on social media depicting Hindu hardliner Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma symbolically aiming and firing weapons at representations of Muslims, prompting accusations of hate speech and calls for legal action. T...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A police investigation in Lucknow, the capital of northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has found no evidence of illegal Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrants, contradicting repeated claims by ruling party leaders and Hindu right-wing groups who have alleged large-scale foreign Muslim settlement in the city. Senior polic...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Two international human rights organizations have submitted a complaint to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urging it to declare the detention of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj arbitrary and in violation of international law. The complaint was filed by the Human Rights Foundation and the Asian Forum fo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Residents of Lakshadweep, a remote Muslim-majority archipelago in the Arabian Sea, are protesting a move by India’s federally appointed administration to acquire private land on Agatti Island for tourism and infrastructure projects without the consent of local communities or landowners. The administration has announce...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities are defending criminal proceedings against a British national of Indian origin who has criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a case that civil liberties advocates say reflects the growing criminalization of dissent, particularly when criticism comes from abroad. Police in Mumbai told the Mumba...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior leader of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has openly called for the social and economic boycott of Bengali-speaking Muslims in the northeastern state of Assam, urging citizens to deny them land, transport, and livelihoods so that they are forced to leave the state. The remarks were made this […]...
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 […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s most populous Uttar Pradesh state have demolished a row of small shops in a Muslim-majority area of Ayodhya, intensifying allegations that bulldozers are being used as a tool of collective punishment against Muslims even while legal disputes remain unresolved. The demolitions took place on Thurs...
