Indian Journalist Arrested For Hurting Hindu "Religious Sentiments"
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Date: 2022-07-07

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Recently, Mohammed Zubair, a journalist and co-founder of India's leading fact-checking website Alt News, was arrested and charged by police for hurting religious sentiments. Zubair, 39, was charged after calling some far-right Hindu monks who called for the ethnic cleansing of Indian Muslims "hatemongers." Other news sites report that Zubair was cited for a 2018 tweet that showed an image of a hotel sign displaying the name "Honeymoon Hotel," which was then repainted to "Hanuman Hotel," referencing the Hindu monkey god. It was quickly pointed out that these images were actually stills from a 1983 comedy movie. These charges fall under the Indian Penal Code Sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 295-A (malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings). Notably, Zubair was one of the first to share a video of the notorious televised debate involving the now-former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma commenting on the prophet's child-wife, Ayesha. Since then, he has been targeted by members of the BJP and right-wing Hindu groups, and many see his arrest as a blatant act of retaliation. In a moment of ultimate irony, on the same day as Zubair's arrest, India, alongside 12 other countries, signed the “2022 Resilient Democracies Statement," a declaration that calls for "guarding the freedom, independence and diversity of civil society actors" and "protecting the freedom of expression and opinion online and offline."

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Indian Journalist Arrested For Hurting Hindu "Religious Sentiments"
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