DELHI Agents provocateur DIVYA TRIVEDI “IF you speak in Hindi, they call you Pakistani; if you speak in Bengali, you automatically become a Bangladeshi,” said a young man whose shop was bulldozed as part of an anti-encroachment drive in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri following communal clashes in April. Reacting to the BJP’s “bulldozer politics”, as the action has been termed in social …
Sreedathan, the founder and managing director of the website Indus Scrolls has accused Newslaundry ‘journalist’ of misquoting him in her quest to whitewash the terror links of the Islamist organisation Popular Front of India member and ‘dubious’ journalist Siddique Kappan, who is languishing in UP jail for conspiring to create communal tension in Hathras. After report, Islamists target @indusscrolls founder …
Mohammad Faisal, a Rajasthan based lawyer, has accused the Uttar Pradesh Police of wrongful arrest during the ongoing anti-CAA protests in the state. Faisal, a lawyer based out of Kota district in Rajasthan, has claimed that he had visited Uttar Pradesh's Shamli to help people involved in anti-CAA protests, who were falsely implicated by the UP Police. While speaking to …
The recent Bulandshahr violence that claimed the lives of a policeman and a 20-year-old man was a "targeted attempt" to "instil fear" in the Muslim community, an umbrella organisation of human rights bodies claimed Sunday and demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into it. The "fact-finding" team member Manoj Singh, of the All India People's Forum, claimed the way a purported …
As per reports, Federation for Human Rights urged the government of Puducherry to introduce “Human Rights Curriculum” in the school curriculum in the Union Territory. Links with organizations linked to ‘Urban Naxals’ The organization also appears to have participated in the inaugural conference of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners, an organization with intimate links to alleged Naxals, …
