Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Tripura Police

Two journalists booked in Tripura for reporting on anti-Muslim violence

Samriddhi K Sakunia and Swarna Jha, two journalists at HW News Network have been booked by Tripura Police while reporting on anti-Muslim violence unleashed by Hindutva groups in the northeast state.

‘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: Global journalists’ body demand for withdrawal of UAPA cases

In a complaint filed on 3 November, Tripura police claimed 102 social media accounts were responsible for spreading "objectionable news items/statements," and the account holders were charged under draconian UAPA.

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.

Tripura: 4 members of Delhi’s Muslim group arrested under UAPA over fact-finding visit

Four members of a Delhi-based Muslim NGO, Tahreek Farogh e Islam, who carried out a visit to Tripura following the violence unleashed by Hindutva groups against the northeast region’s Muslim minorities, have been booked under draconian UAPA.