Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Topic: Hate Crime

Checked he was a Muslim, cut ear with pliers: 50-year-old man lynched in Bihar

A 50-year-old cloth vendor, Mohammad Athar Hussain, succumbed to his injuries late Friday night at Biharsharif Sadar Hospital, days after being brutally assaulted in a mob lynching incident in the Roh police station area of Nawada district.

Behind the laugh track; Meme factories of Hindutva online

In the dark humor of Islamophobic memes, hate masquerades as a joke while algorithms reward and amplify the stereotypes that divide us.

BJP worker who attacked Muslim driver for refusing ‘Jai Sri Ram’ arrested; had targeted Muslims earlier

A week after a 57-year-old Muslim taxi driver from Agra was harassed and allegedly assaulted for refusing to chant Jai Sri Ram, the main accused, Rohit Thakur, has been arrested.

Targeted killings on Jaipur Express: Muslim woman tells court she was forced to chant “Jai Mata Di” at gunpoint by accused cop

A Muslim woman passenger wearing a burqa, who appeared as a witness in the case of RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, accused of going on a rampage aboard a moving train in July 2023 and killing three Muslim men and a colleague from the tribal community, told a local court on Monday that he forced her to chant “Jai Mata Di” at gunpoint.

“If you want to live in Hindustan…”: Muslim man assaulted for refusing to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on 15 Aug in Uttarakhand

A Muslim man was assaulted by three people in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal for refusing to chant “Jai Shri Ram” on Independence Day.

Hindutva men arrested for poisoning school water tank to target Muslim principal in Karnataka

In a disturbing incident in Belagavi district of Karnataka, a member of the Sri Rama Sena  allegedly poisoned the drinking water at a government...