-The Hindu Senior journalist and writer Appu Esthose Suresh starts a Gandhi-inspired platform to filter fake news and hate speeches From communal riots to transistor blasts and crimes of passion, Delhi is no stranger to felonies but the greatest criminal offence in the national capital was committed on January 30, 1948, when Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead at a prayer meeting by Nathuram Godse. In a newly published book — The Murderer, The...
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Our New Hate-Crime Database: 76% Of Victims Over 10 Years Minorities; 90% Attacks Reported Since 2014 -Alison Saldanha & Karthik Madhavapeddi
-Factchecker.in Mumbai: In 254 religious identity-based hate crimes reported in India between January 1, 2009, and October 29, 2018, at least 91 persons were killed and 579 were injured, according to a new FactChecker.in database, released on October 30, 2018. About 90% (229) of these attacks were reported after May 2014, when the current Bharatiya Janata Party-led government assumed power nationally. The Citizen’s Religious Hate-Crime Watch (Hate Crime Watch, in short) records...
More »Why can't Yogi Adityanath be prosecuted for hate speech, Supreme Court asks UP govt
-Hindustan Times Adityanath was an MP from Gorakhpur when he allegedly gave an inflammatory speech outside the town’s railway station. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to explain why chief minister Yogi Adityanath should not be prosecuted in a case involving an alleged hate speech he had delivered before the 2007 Gorakhpur riots. A bench of chief justice of India Dipak Misra, and justices AM Khanwilkar and...
More »Govt reports 27% rise in communal clashes
-The Telegraph New Delhi: India witnessed 822 communal flare-ups in 2017, the highest for a year and a 27 per cent rise from 2014, according to data provided by the Union home ministry to the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. As many as 111 people were killed in these 822 incidents of communal violence, the figures showed. Some 86 people were killed in 703 such incidents in 2016, compared with 97 deaths in...
More »30000 riot displaced off govt's radar
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Tens of thousands of people who relocated from riot-torn areas of Muzaffarnagar to areas with minority concentration find themselves out of the government's grid even three years after the violence forced them to flee their homes. This is the main finding of a survey conducted by NGOs Aman Biradari and Afkar India of the 65 colonies that have come up in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli to house the 30,000...
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