Hate Speech

Censorship and the Drumbeats of Hate: Mapping the state of free speech ahead of the 2026 polls

A new report by Free Speech Collective traces five years of censorship, criminalisation of dissent, and the rise of hate-driven political discourse across Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry—raising urgent questions about the conditions for free and fair elections

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?”

Rising Tensions: Hindutva organisations continue with hate speeches across India

Hate speeches inciting violence against Muslims and Christians raise concerns. 

Bail not Jail for Bajrang Dal man, Bittu who posted a provocative video on day of Nuh clash

GURGAON: The Bajrang Dal member Raj Kumar alias Bittu...

Times Now Navbharat conducts media trial over Gyanvapi Mosque survey, CJP sends complaint

Complaint states that news segment was more of a one-sided show promoting the host’s version of the “Hindu cause” or a religious/sectarian debate rather than a news room debate

Plea against VHP rallies in Delhi-NCR on Aug 2 had stated “rallies likely to fan communal fires, incite people”

The plea was filed in the pending writ petition concerning hate speeches, had prayed for Court’s intervention to stop the rallies that “will inevitably lead to communal disharmony and violence of an unfathomable scale across the country.”

Suresh Chavhanke’s hate filled rhetoric leaves behind a trail of violence

Controversial right-wing TV host, advocates applying 'Gujarat Model' to Haryana

Maharashtra: Sakal Hindi Samaj allows hate speech to go unchecked

Video peddles, conspiracy theories, economic boycotts, and 'live jihad' rhetoric persist.

Nuh Haryana: Who cast the first stone?

For days before the violence erupted in Nuh, Haryana, hate speeches were made, social media was used for amplification and mobilising and finally an armed procession succeeded in the sinister plan: communal clashes in Nuh, Haryana

Communal violence erupts in Nuh, Mewat, five killed, provocations by VHP-Bajrang Dal continue

Gurgaon’s Sector 57 mosque was vandalised, set on fire...

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