Hate Speech

Religious hate finds a stage at Dehradun Press Club, event on “how to save women from jihadis” organised

Incendiary calls for arming Hindus and vilifying Muslims echo from a press club stage, Yati Ramswaroopanand Giri brazenly urged Hindus to arm themselves to "protect the women in their families"

Hate Speech targeting minorities continue nationwide, from Daman to Delhi

Multiple incidents of derogatory and dehumanising hate speech towards Muslims reported across India.

Far right, Hindutva leaders stoke communal fires across India

Hate speeches and provocative declarations by Hindutva leaders spread communal tensions, as anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and incendiary remarks are repeated in various speeches

Five hate speeches given by Suresh Chavhanke in July, CJP moves NCM

Demanding swift and stern action, complaint highlights the alarming escalation of Chavhanke's divisive agenda and the danger it poses to social harmony

Far right leader calls for “repeating Gujarat 2002 in Karnataka”: Hindu Jagaran Vedike (HJV)

In the town of Bagalkote, Karnataka, a far-right leader's...

CJP escalates complaint against Times Now Navbharat show on Gyanvapi Mosque to NBDSA

The show made contentious, one-sided and misinformed statements regarding the Supreme Court and the ASI Survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque

Independence Day celebrations across India marred by hate-fuelled events

Hate speech targeting Muslims mars celebrations, violent sloganeering at right-wing rallies overshadow unity and heritage.

Supreme Court finds self-regulation of TV to be “ineffective”, will frame stringent laws

CJI Chandrachud: “Unless you make the rules stringent no TV channel has no compulsion to comply. For any violation if there is a lakh penalty then what stops them?"

Tushar Gandhi lodges police complaint against Sambhaji Bhide over insults to Mahatma Gandhi

I will not take any slander against my ancestors said the great grandson of Gandhi after lodging the complaint; Gandhi was accompanied by senior activists

IIM faculty members write an open letter to corporate India to ‘De-fund Hate Speech’

Present and retired stake holders of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bengaluru have appealed to corporate India to stop funding hate 

SC asks petitioners to not watch channels spreading hate, states that legal remedies available already

Justice Oka: “If you do not like them, then do not watch them. When some wrong thing is shown, it is also about perception. Is there not freedom of expression?”

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