Indian Muslims
If India is still committed to democracy, then it follows that minority communities must be allowed to live without harassment.
Published 11 Feb, 2022 08:19am
Calls on international community to take notice of the "worrying level of Islamophobia in India".
Published 09 Feb, 2022 10:28pm
Karnataka chief minister appeals for calm after announcing that all high schools in the state will be closed for three days.
Published 08 Feb, 2022 08:04pm
India Charge d’ Affaires summoned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey the govt's "serious concerns".
Updated 28 Dec, 2021 09:30am
Uttarakhand police say they are “investigating the matter and strict action will be taken against the guilty.”
Published 24 Dec, 2021 07:15pm
The Haryana chief minister had earlier declared that outdoor prayers in Gurgaon “will no longer be tolerated”.
Published 24 Dec, 2021 10:55am
"Our politicians, our army and every Hindu must pick up weapons and conduct a safayi abhiyan (clean-up)," one leader says.
Updated 24 Dec, 2021 08:07am
Muslims in India face a systematic wave of discrimination and disenfranchisement.
Updated 19 Dec, 2021 08:29am
Reporters Without Borders "firmly condemns" investigation; Editors Guild of India demands probe into attacks in Tripura.
Published 09 Nov, 2021 08:07pm
The lawyers in their report said the violence was a “result of the irresponsibility of the administration and extremist outfits".
Published 04 Nov, 2021 03:47pm
Violence against Muslims in India also reported after Pakistan's emphatic 10-wicket win over India.
Published 25 Oct, 2021 05:30pm
The state has a grim history of security forces turning on civilian populations.
Updated 25 Sep, 2021 04:44pm
FO summons Indian charge d’ affaires.
Updated 25 Sep, 2021 12:50pm
FO urges international community to "hold India accountable for systemic and blatant human rights violations of minorities".
Updated 25 Aug, 2021 07:24am
The BJP’s Hindutva troll army makes it its daily business to pursue and intimidate everyone that is not under their umbrella.
Updated 14 Jul, 2021 07:45am
Photos of more than 80 women were reportedly uploaded in recent weeks to GitHub.
Published 10 Jul, 2021 04:46pm
Police official says the victim, a meat seller, has been arrested but not jailed.
Published 24 May, 2021 02:11pm
Recommends for the second year in a row that India be placed on a blacklist for religious freedom.
Updated 21 Apr, 2021 08:39pm
The lanes of Shiv Vihar are ghettoising as fear – and real estate agents – drive families to sell homes.
Updated 09 Apr, 2021 11:54am
Police have dismissed hundreds of complaints against Hindu rioters, citing a lack of evidence despite multiple eyewitnesses.
Published 23 Feb, 2021 02:41pm
“Adult women are infantilised, placed under parental and community control, and denied the right to take life decisions.”
Published 15 Jan, 2021 08:04pm
Although no religion is specified in the legislation, critics say it is aimed against the country’s Muslim minority.
Updated 30 Dec, 2020 09:04am
Dozens of Muslim men have been arrested — for which police need no warrant — in just a few weeks after a new law was enacted.
Updated 24 Dec, 2020 10:50pm
Modi has risen to power by hurling anti-Babar invectives at Indian Muslims.
Updated 15 Dec, 2020 11:57am
The trajectory from the Babri Masjid incident to the rapid spread of Hindutva is a frightening one.
Published 08 Dec, 2020 08:18am
Officials in Uttar Pradesh says the law will help prevent fraudulent religious conversions and is designed to protect young women.
Published 07 Dec, 2020 04:43pm
Slams acquittal of criminals responsible for demolition of Babri Mosque.
Updated 07 Dec, 2020 09:27am
A couple belonging to 2 different religions will have to give two months' notice to a district magistrate before getting married.
Published 25 Nov, 2020 01:35pm
"Muslims are being mistreated not just in occupied Kashmir but in all of India," says FM Qureshi.
Updated 21 Nov, 2020 09:12am
India has never looked so vulnerable and edgy in its own neighbourhood as it looks now.
Published 26 Oct, 2020 11:00am