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Feature: “We still don’t know why he was killed,” says children of Muslim man lynched in UP

Saher Hiba Khan On 02 September 2022, around 10:15 pm., Dawood Ali Tyagi, a resident of Vinaypur village in the Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, was sitting on a cot outside his home while talking on the phone. Dawood’s nephew Naeem Tyagi and his neighbour Akram were sitting next to …

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Feature: Locals worried after leopard kill children in Kashmir’s Uri

Bhat Yasir Wildlife team during a search operation which was launched in MuliNag Dhani-syedian area of Uri Baramulla after two minors were killed by a man-eater leopard. Photo: Bhat Yasir Syed Abbass Hussein is a wretched father whose child fell prey to a leopard on the evening of 22 September …

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Feature: “My daughter wakes up at odd hours of night, asking for her father,” says wife of jailed Tahir Hussain

“My daughter, in Standard VIII, wakes up at odd hours of night, asking for her father,” says Sama, wife of former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain, who is languishing in jail under draconian UAPA since February 2020 in connection with the northeast Delhi violence cases. Sama was speaking to …

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Feature: “Tortured our child,” says kin of 8-year-old Rizwan Qureshi

Saher Hiba Khan On 8 September, a large group from the Hindu community was taking out the yearly Mahavir Akhara rally through Barharia’s Purani Bazaar— a Muslim dominated locality in Bihar’s Siwan district. At around 4 pm that evening, the mob started pelting stones, shouting Islamophobic slogans and playing obscene …

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Feature: Student leader Atiq-ur-Rehman swinging between life & death inside jail, laments wife

(Clarion India) “On 29th August, he was being taken to the doctor for check-up. On the way, his condition deteriorated to such an extent that he fell unconscious. Till now, he is unable to recognise people and does not understand what he is saying,” said Sanjida Rahman, wife of the UAPA accused

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Feature: Kin, neighbours refute allegations against Delhi man arrested for terror funding

Muhammad Tahir On August 18, Mohammad Yaseen, a resident of Delhi’s Turkman Gate, was arrested in a joint operation by police from Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir, along with central agencies. The 48-year-old was arrested from Old Delhi’s Meena Bazaar area. Police said that yaseen allegedly working as an agent …

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Feature: Jamia Millia threatens to cancel admission of MPhil Scholar Safoora Zargar

Shaheen Abdulla Student activist and research scholar Safoora Zargar says that the Department of Sociology in Jamia Millia Islamia is threatening to cancel her Mphil admission in a “discriminatory” move. The 29-year-old Muslim activist claims that her application for an extension of Mphil thesis submission has been put on hold …

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