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Nazia Elahi Khan faces multiple FIRs over alleged hate speech
A viral podcast featuring alleged derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad has placed Nazia Elahi Khan at the centre of nationwide controversy, triggering multiple FIRs, police complaints and protests across several states. The episode has also renewed scrutiny of her record of alleged communal hate speech through speeches, campaigns and online interventions
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Maharashtra: Six more complaints filed against hate offenders by CJP
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Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has been working 24 X 7, round the clock, to monitor and combat hate speech --and through this promote peace --in Maharashtra and across the country. In past week, CJP has filed six complaints to the Maharashtra Police, seeking preventive action against the ‘Hindu Janakrosh Morchas’ and SHS’s events
Despite legal promises, hate speech prosecutions in Maharashtra remain paralysed
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With over 19 hate speech FIRs stuck in limbo, no reports of further investigations nor arrests, the Mahayuti state government faces criticism for slow (or no) action as communal tensions rise; CJP intensifies legal action and monitoring to curb growing communal violence in Maharashtra; details of the complaints filed by CJP may be read here.
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"
Nationwide surge in Anti-Muslim violence: September 15-17 sees unprecedented attacks and discrimination
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A detailed look at the events intensifying communal divides, rising islamophobia and state complicity from Jharkhand to Himachal
Assam CM call to expel ‘Miya Muslims,’ leads to violence against Bengali speaking Muslim Labourers
FIR registered against BJP leader for assault on Bengali speaking Muslim labourers and threatens them to leave Assam and Assamese Muslim singer arrested for protest song “Miya Bihu”
CJP sent three complaints to Maharahtra Police against right-wing outfits
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In complaints, CJP asked Maharashtra Police to deny permission of the proposed events of right-wing extremist organizations SHS and HJS, CJP also highlighted the recent violence that erupted in Maharashtra during the “Morchas” called by the extremist right-wing outfits
BJP MP Kangana’s foul mouthed slip against farmers, again, compels saffron party to a hurried public apology
Issuing a public statement on X, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) distances itself from another foul mouthed faux pas by its elected MP from Mandi, HP, after she says “dead bodies were hanging from trees,” rapes happened during farmers protests!
Human Rights Watch reports that Modi made at least 110 Islamophobic remarks during 2024 election campaign
HRW also found notable increase in violence against minority communities in India during the decade long BJP rule
Kalicharan’s inflammatory rhetoric promoting division and inciting violence in Maharashtra, CJP calls for urgent intervention
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In his speech delivered in Nashik, Kalicharan has made strange and offensive claims against the Muslims to spread his divisive ideology, attempted to encourage violence against the Muslim community by distorting India’s past as well as the history of the beloved leaders of Maharashtra.
Punjab MP seeks curb over communal hatred posts on social media
In Parliament, Punjab MP Vikramjit Singh Sahney asked the Centre to furnish details of the steps & actions taken by the government to control religious and communal hate posts on the social media, Sahney also submitted the private member bill against online hate
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