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Social media site denies any bias towards ruling Hindu nationalist BJP partyFacebook’s alleged political bias and its role in spreading anti-Muslim hate speech in India is to come under scrutiny when senior executives are summoned before a parliamentar…
Read MoreMashal Naseem has got used to the death threats since she began campaigning for justice for her father, Tahir Ahmad Naseem, who was shot in a Pakistan courtroom last monthIt has only been a few weeks, but Mashal Naseem has already got used to shrugging…
Read MoreThousands of ritual statues are dunked into the sea off Mumbai each year – but coronavirus and pollution concerns are forcing change In the quiet housing estate of Angrewadi in the heart of Girgaon in south Mumbai, people are celebrating the 100th cons…
Read MoreDelhi Riots 2020 claims violence was result of Muslim jihadist conspiracy but critics accuse publisher of censorshipBloomsbury India has pulled a controversial book claiming to tell the untold story of February’s Delhi riots, after the publisher was ac…
Read MoreHeavily supervised visits to indoctrination centres present reporters with smiling inmates and tales of cultural acceptanceJournalist Sherif Sonbol was taking pictures of ethnic dancers during an official tour of China’s far western Xinjiang province w…
Read MoreStatement signed by Rowan Williams, bishops, imams and rabbis says Chinese Muslim minority faces ‘human tragedy’Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, is among more than 70 faith leaders publicly declaring that the Uighurs are facing “one…
Read MoreAn image in Times Square celebrated not only the construction of a Hindu temple but the destruction of a mosqueMussolini confided in his son that one of his nightmares was that he would be put on trial at New York’s Madison Square Garden, in case of ca…
Read MoreA funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion. By Shaun Walker My grandfather had never been a tall man, and now he looked absurdly small, no bigger than a child. Swaddled in off-white sheets like a newborn, with just his head and the…
Read MoreSince erasing the region’s special status India is selling off its rich land and mineral rights – and crushing all dissentMirza Waheed is a novelist and essayistI’m sure many people have heard of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. It’s a mo…
Read MoreTahir Ahmed Naseem is latest victim of violence connected to blasphemy lawsA Pakistani man on trial for blasphemy has been shot dead in a courtroom, in the latest violent incident connected with the country’s blasphemy laws.Tahir Ahmed Naseem had been …
Read MoreBeijing claims its re-education camps in Xinjiang are needed to combat Islamic terrorism, but Dilara’s experiences tell a different storyBy the standards of Chinese officialdom, Dilara is surely the perfect minority. She doesn’t wear a headscarf. She d…
Read MoreUK expected to suspend extradition arrangements with Hong Kong as Liu Xiaoming blames reports of forced sterilisation on ‘anti-China elements’China’s ambassador to the UK gave a brazen defence of his country’s human rights record on Sunday, insisting t…
Read MoreRepublican senators among those hit by sanctions brought in response to US measures The Chinese government has announced sanctions against US officials, including the Republican senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in response to US sanctions over Beijin…
Read MorePetitions filed in court to block work on first Hindu temple in capital since Pakistan’s creationThe controversial construction of the first Hindu temple in Pakistan’s capital has been halted after it was challenged in the courts.Plans for the Shri Kri…
Read MoreInfection risk means families are suffering trauma and guilt by not being able to carry out the Islamic funeral ritual of washing the bodyJusna Begum wakes up to her phone ringing at 1am. When she answers, it’s an inconsolable woman who has just lost h…
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