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After NEET protests ended, the battle moved online: Women protesters face threats, doxing and criminalisation
From demands for accountability over a paper leak to attacks on protesters’ identities, the aftermath of the movement raises questions about dissent, gendered harassment and the State’s response to democratic protest
UP BJP MLA asks people not to buy vegetables from Muslim vendors
Islamophobia intensifies as fresh instances of hate speech keep cropping up
BJP spreading virus of communal prejudice & hatred: Sonia Gandhi
Congress president takes on PM on loopholes in Covid-19 combat plans, and ignores allegations by TV anchors
Secular Hindus, Muslims on my target: VHP District Security Chief Suraj Tiwari
The repeat hate offender communalized the Palghar lynching incident and has asked Hindu brothers to come to the streets post the lockdown to stage a protest
Right to dissent is at the core of democracy
Do not isolate and target students, unite as a nation: Civil society condemns Delhi Police for falsely implicating students and activists in Delhi riot cases
Palghar lynching case: Maha Home Minister releases list of accused, says none are Muslim
Makes names public in a bid to decommunalise the case where rumour mills painted Muslims as the villain, after two ‘saadhus’ and their driver were killed on suspicion of being thieves.
Journalists are not terrorists, journalism is not a crime
Muslim journalists, students and activists, booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), under which an individual 'labelled' a terrorist can jailed for up to seven years
It took influential Arab anger to make India notice hate speech
Threat of a diplomatic crisis draws a few words of wisdom, that were missing when anti-Muslim hate spread faster than the Coronavirus, in India.
BJP members target Tablighi Jamaat for spread of coronavirus
Indulging in hate mongering, while MLA asked members of his constituency to stay away from the Tablighi Jamaat sect and community, the other said that Jamaatis were the number one problem of the country
AAMSU raises concerns about communal FT member with Home Secretary
After calling Muslims “jehadi” and “jahil” in official communication, the FT member gives religion-wise break up of people not declared foreigners
Stop targeting, discriminating against and attacking vendors and hawkers: National Hawker Federation
An attack on vendors is not only a violation of their dignity and basic rights, but also an unconscionable act on the part of our citizenry
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