NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian Muslim student activist Umar Khalid, who has been incarcerated for more than six years without trial in a controversial anti-terrorism case linked to the 2020 anti-Muslim violence in Delhi, has been honored with an international human rights award recognizing activists facing persecution for defending fundament...
MARRAKECH, Morocco (MNTV) — Eight Israeli arms manufacturers have participated in Morocco’s Marrakech Air Show for the first time under an official Israeli delegation. The move highlights deepening military cooperation between the two countries despite mounting international condemnation of Israel’s devastating war on Gaza. According to Middle...
By MNTV Staff Writer When Navi Pillay was five years old, she stood in a Durban courtroom to testify against a man who had robbed her of the money she was carrying home for her father’s wages. It was, in a sense, the first of a lifetime of appearances before the law — a career […]
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (MNTV) — Kyrgyzstan is heading toward a presidential election on Jan. 27, 2027, with President Sadyr Japarov set to seek a second term after a sweeping reshaping of the country’s political system — and the downfall of the ally once seen as his heir. The political landscape bears little resemblance to that of […...
MELBOURNE, Australia (MNTV) — As Pauline Hanson’s One Nation mounts its biggest-ever campaign in the Australian state of Victoria, several of its candidates have been quietly deleting old social-media posts — but journalists got to the material first. One Nation, the right-wing anti-immigration party founded and still led by Queensland s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Members of the Hindu extremist group Bajrang Dal allegedly forced a Muslim woman off a train and subjected her to questioning and harassment at a railway station in central India, raising fresh concerns over the growing intimidation of Muslims by Hindutva vigilante groups. The woman was traveling with a Muslim [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Rohingya representatives have called for a clear international roadmap to ensure their safe, voluntary and sustainable return to their homeland in Burma, warning that prolonged displacement and declining humanitarian assistance are placing growing pressure on refugees and the Bangladeshi communities hosting them. The...
NABLUS, Palestine (MNTV) — Israeli settlers beat an AFP photographer and fired weapons toward journalists as they documented attacks on Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank. Arab News, citing AFP, reported that photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh suffered bruising to his head and torso and was taken to hospital after the attack near Aq...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Maulana Saeed-ur-Rahman Azmi Nadwi, a distinguished Indian Islamic scholar, Arabic literary figure and former head of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, one of South Asia’s leading Islamic educational institutions, has died in Lucknow after a prolonged illness. He was 92. His death marks the loss of an influential figu...
By Mushfiq Ahmed KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MNTV) — Malaysia is rebuilding its mental-health response around prevention, community care and early intervention — but a shortage of specialists and growing pressures on young people are testing its effort to make support reach everyone who needs it. Speaking to MNTV as the world marks World Mental He...