Saturday, May 4, 2024

Topic: Anti-Muslim Pogrom Delhi 2020

Police joined Farooqia Masjid attack, next day came for madrasa

Farooqia Masjid was heckled and torched on 25th February, the third day of Delhi violence. “ It was after Magrib prayer, people were inside the masjid when mob along with police entered,” alleges Mohammed Faqrudeen, president of Farooqia Jama masjid.

“Do you want to get killed,” local Hindus threaten returned Muslims

"They asked us for our house keys. The face covered goons had weapons in their hands. They demanded that we run away because we are Muslims and said we had no right to stay in our own houses," Parveen recounts.

Delhi violence: Children are distraught at having missed exams

Ayisha, a 15-year-old girl, recalls the anti-Muslim violence that she witnessed happening in her neighborhood on 25th February. Days later, her house has been completely vandalized, her parents' vegetable stall missing, while she has missed two of her 10th grade Board examinations and prepares to appear for her science exam tomorrow

Hundreds mourn 19-year-old Muslim youth who was killed in stone-pelting in Delhi violence

Aquib Malik, 19-year-old Muslim youth who was killed in anti-Muslim violence in the northeast Delhi on Monday was laid to rest at the graveyard nearby Mustafabad Eidgah after Maghrib prayers.

UN moves Supreme Court over ‘discriminatory’ CAA, India says our internal matter

The United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) has moved an intervention application in the Supreme Court on the Citizenship Amendment Act matter.

Modi ethnically cleansing religious minorities: US Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez

Cortez said in a tweet, “President Trump is engaging in arms deals with Modi while his administration is ethnically cleansing the country’s religious minorities. We must not enable this rise in sectarian violence.”