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US Lawyers Write to President Biden on Farmers' Protests, Modi Govt's Repressive Tactics 'Your administration comes to office at a time when minority communities across India are in peril,' notes the letter, urging the US President to act. U.S. President Joe Biden addresses National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff during a visit to NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., February 11, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria World15/Feb/2021 New Delhi: More than 40 lawyers of south Asian descent have written an open letter to US President Joseph Biden, asking him to take note of the farmers’ protests an...

Five Men Arrested For One Complaint. All Denied Bail. BJP Opposition And Its ‘Godi Media’ Spoke Up Only For The Muslim Man by Swati Goel Sharma - Feb 12, 2021 10:44 AM Munawar Faruqui (Twitter). Snapshot Most of the criticism has referred to Faruqui’s Muslim identity to say he has been victimised for his religion. This is in line with their propaganda of Muslims being ‘persecuted’ under the ‘Hindu nationalist’ BJP government. A case of alleged blasphemy recently registered in Madhya Pradesh, which is currently governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ...

Artists, comics call for withdrawal of charges against Munawar Faruqui Updated: Updated: The arrest of Mr. Faruqui “even before he cracked a joke” was astounding and outrageous. Share Article The arrest of Mr. Faruqui “even before he cracked a joke” was astounding and outrageous. An international group of artists, comedians, writers and activists on Friday called for the charges against comedian Munawar Faruqui to be dropped. They stated that the recent case against him had implications on the freedom of speech in India. The public statement signed by 110 people, including histori...

Anubhooti Gupta As 2021 dawned, stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui was arrested from a club in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, for “mocking the deities of another religion” and no one uttered a word about intolerance. Faruqui was arrested by the Indore police after a complaint from Eklavya Goud, chief of Hindu Rakshak Sangathan and secretary of the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the son of BJP MLA Malini Gaud. Faruqui remained in jail for over a month, though the police had no evidence of his “crime”. His bail plea was re...

Days after he walked out of Indore jail after being behind the bars for over a month, standup comic Munawar Faruqui on late Tuesday night shared on his