Sunday, May 5, 2024

Topic: Anti-Muslim

‘No mosque damaged in Tripura’, claims Union weeks after a dozen mosques attacked

Two weeks after at least 15 mosques were attacked by Hindutva groups RSS, VHP, and Bajrang Dal across Tripura in week-long violence against Muslims, the Union government on Saturday issued a statement asserting that no mosque has been damaged in Tripura in the recent past and that there were no reports of injury, rape or death in any clash in the state.

Tripura: 4 Muslim scholars still in custody and their crime is a fact-finding visit

A bail application was filed demanding the release of four Muslim scholars belonging to a Delhi-based group Tahreek-e-Farogh-e-Islam (TFI) who were arrested by Tripura police under draconian law UAPA this week when they carried out a visit to Tripura following the violence unleashed by Hindutva groups against the northeast region’s Muslim minorities.

Tripura anti-Muslim violence: Supreme Court to hear plea challenging invoking of UAPA

Lawyers Mukesh, Ansar Indori, and journalist Shyam Meera Singh have moved the Supreme Court for the quashing of the FIR filed against them under the draconian UAPA over their social media posts and fact-finding reports on anti-Muslim violence in Tripura.

‘This cannot be tolerated’: Zakia Jafri challenges SIT’s clean chit to Modi in Gujarat genocide case

Zakia is fighting a legal battle demanding that prime minister Narendra Modi and others be held responsible for failing to stop the genocide.

Odisha: Muslim men injured in Hindu mob’s assault

On 1 November in Benapanjari village in Odisha's Khordha district, a welding shop owner, Abdul Raheem, and his staff member met with an accident, which soon escalated as it took an anti-Muslim color.

Your govt was ‘in connivance of perpetrators,’ Muslim body writes to Tripura CM

Friday, 5 November, leaders of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat who carried a visit to Tripura following the week-long assaults on Muslims in the northeast state, wrote a letter to Biplab Kumar Deb, Tripura chief minister, seeking the state government's immediate intervention in the protection of Muslims in the state who form about nine percent of its 3.7 million population.