Thursday, April 25, 2024

Rushda Fathima Khan

Rushda Fathima Khan is a journalist based in Bengaluru.

Cow vigilantes lynch Muslim youth to death in Mathura, 5 others injured

A cow vigilante group in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura lynched a Muslim youth and severely injured 5 others on Wednesday night, accusing them of smuggling cow.

“None of our demands has been fulfilled.” 7 years on, Mohsin Shaikh’s family awaits justice

Seven days after Narendra Modi took oath as the 14th Prime Minister of India on May 26 2014, a mob of Hindu extremists waylaid a Muslim techie in the city of Pune in Maharashtra and thrashed him mercilessly for hours.
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Thousand days, no evidence; Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan remains in jail

Calls are growing for the immediate release of Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan, who on May 25th (Tuesday) completed 1000 days in prison. Journalists and activists in Kashmir and globally have urged the authorities to free Sultan who they say is being punished for doing journalism.

UP: Muslim journalist assaulted by Hindu Vahini in presence of MLA, booked by police too

Ameen Farooqui, a local TV journalist in Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh was brutally thrashed by youths belonging to the Hindu Yuva Vahini, a Hindu right-wing outfit, while officials including the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Tribhuvan Kumar, Circle Officer Ajay Srivastava and Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker Raghvendra Pratap Singh watched as silent spectators.
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Outrage after abusive tweets by rightwing accounts target Muslim women

Men running right-wing social media accounts are being called out for making obscene remarks against prominent Muslim women on social media on the eve of Eid. The abusive campaign involved outrageous acts including ‘rating’, objectifying and making sexually abusive comments on the photos of Pakistani women, even going to the extent of ‘auctioning'.