{"id":45827,"date":"2022-06-28T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/28\/delhi-police-arrest-muslim-journalist-mohammed-zubair-india-bjp"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:45:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T04:45:16","slug":"delhi-police-arrest-muslim-journalist-mohammed-zubair-over-tweet-from-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45827","title":{"rendered":"Delhi police arrest Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair over tweet from 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists demand release of the co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News after he was accused of insulting Hindus<\/p>\n<p>Delhi police have arrested the Muslim co-founder of a fact-checking website, accusing him of insulting religious beliefs on Twitter, a network of digital media organisations said, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DigipubIndia\/status\/1541446752695308291\">condemning it as an attempt to harass him for his journalism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Zubair, who co-founded Alt News and regularly tweets on rising marginalisation of the Muslim minority in the country, was arrested under two sections of a law related to maintaining religious harmony, said the DIGIPUB association. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/28\/delhi-police-arrest-muslim-journalist-mohammed-zubair-india-bjp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists demand release of the co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News after he was accused of insulting HindusDelhi police have arrested the Muslim co-founder of a fact-checking website, accusing him of insulting religious beliefs on Twitt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[236,62,447,238,54,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-media","category-india","category-islam","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45847,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45827\/revisions\/45847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}