Sunday, May 25, 2025

Topic: Muhammed Zubair

Allahabad HC refuses to quash FIR against fact-checker Zubair over his posts on Hindutva priest’s hate speech

The Allahabad High Court declined to quash a First Information Report (FIR) filed against Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of the fact-checking outlet Alt News, concerning his social media posts on platform X about Hindutva priest Yati Narsinghanand’s alleged derogatory and hate speeches against Muslims, on Thursday.

Alt News’ Zubair files complaint after Hindutva handles leak address, issue death threats

Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair on Monday alleged that his home address and phone number were leaked online by far-right social media users.

“Posts were made as part of professional obligation as fact checker,” says Mohammed Zubair to Allahabad HC

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, while challenging the FIR lodged by the Ghaziabad Police in the Allahabad High Court over his alleged X post on Yati Narsinghanand’s ‘derogatory’ speech, argued that his posts were made as part of his professional obligation as a fact checker.

FIR against Alt News’ Mohammed Zubair for revealing identity of Muslim kid slapped in UP school

Uttar Pradesh Police registered an FIR against Alt News Cofounder Mohammad Zubair for allegedly disclosing the identity of the minor Muslim student who was subjected to Islamophobic abuse by a teacher in the Muzaffarnagar school on video which went viral on social media.

Bengaluru Police book Hindutva Twitter handles over death threats against Mohammed Zubair

Bengaluru Police registered an FIR against 16 Twitter handles over online death threats and call for mob violence against Alt News founder Mohammed Zubair through their tweets.

POCSO case; no criminality found in journalist Mohd Zubair’s tweet: Delhi Police tells High Court

Delhi Police on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that no criminality was found in the tweet posted by Alt News Co-founder and journalist Mohammed Zubair in response to a Twitter user in August 2020. The city police had earlier registered an FIR under POCSO Act against the journalist.