NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Kashmiri Muslim hawker was publicly harassed and verbally abused in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh, after a man claiming to have served in the Indian Army stopped him in a public space and questioned his right to work, triggering widespread outrage after the video went viral on social media. The […]
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Police in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir have launched a sweeping information-gathering exercise targeting mosques across the Kashmir Valley, seeking detailed data not only on religious institutions but also on imams, muezzins, mosque management committees and associated charity wings. According to the Indian ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Indian authorities have moved to prosecute three Kashmiris living in the United States and Germany under sweeping anti-terror legislation, a case that rights advocates say reflects a longstanding pattern in which political expression by Kashmiris is reframed as criminal conspiracy. A special court designated under In...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A series of attacks on Kashmiri shawl vendors in multiple Indian states has renewed concern over the safety of migrant workers from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, with student groups warning of an expanding pattern of ideological targeting linked to Hindu right-wing activism. In recent days, Kashmiri vendors s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Kashmiri Muslim laborer and seasonal trader was violently assaulted, threatened, and forced to chant a Hindu nationalist slogan in northern India’s Uttarakhand state, in an attack that has heightened fears among Kashmiri workers who travel across the country for seasonal livelihoods. The victim, Bilal Ahmed Ganie, a...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A Kashmiri shawl seller was allegedly harassed and threatened with eviction in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh after he refused to chant a nationalist slogan, an incident that has renewed concerns over the safety of migrant traders from Jammu and Kashmir working outside the region. According to accounts shared by t...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Police in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir have seized the mobile phone of a senior journalist without presenting a warrant or case details, in an incident that has renewed concerns over press freedom and the safety of reporters working in the region. Jehangir Ali, a journalist affiliated with an independent new...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A court in Indian-administered Kashmir has upheld the preventive detention of a young man accused of posting political opinions on Facebook, in a ruling that rights advocates say reflects the shrinking space for peaceful expression in a region under heavy militarized governance. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court dismi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Kashmiri Muslim walnut trader was brutally assaulted in the northern Indian state of Punjab, in an incident that has intensified concerns over the rising vulnerability and targeted attacks faced by Muslims across India. The victim, Mohammad Yaseen, a resident of Kulgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, was beaten by s...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Authorities in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir have imposed a two-month ban on virtual private networks (VPNs), expanding what rights advocates describe as one of the world’s harshest regimes of digital censorship and surveillance. The order directs internet provid...
