Islamabad: India has arrested a muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair, who raised the issue of outrageous comments about Prophet Muhammad SAW. The authorities have used a 2018 tweet as an alibi of his detention saying that five year old tweet was “highly provocative and more than sufficient to incite feeling of hatred” among people.
According to reports aDelhi Police First Information Report (FIR) has used the old tweet to take Zubair behind bars.
Zubair is the co-founder of fact-check site Alt News, raised the voice on blatant blashphemy on Indian news channel by core BJP leaders. India was left red faced after Arab nations reacted sharply and markets began boycotting Indian productes.
The journalist has been facing slanderous campaign since.
In his old tweet Zubair had shared a clip from legendary filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1983 classic Kissi Se Na Kehna.
The image shows a hotel board that reads “Hanuman Hotel” in Hindi. Paint marks suggest that it was earlier called ‘Honeymoon Hotel’ and the “Honeymoon” was changed to “Hanuman”.
Mr Zubair wrote in the tweet, “Before 2014: Honeymoon Hotel, After 2014: Hanuman Hotel”.
“Mr Zubair was charged with hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity and was sent to police custody for a day. The police asked for a week’s custody but the magistrate didn’t allow it,” media report claimed.
https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.519.0_en.html#goog_1870316622 The farcical tactic use in the case says that the FIR was lodged on a complaint by Delhi Police Sub-Inspector Arun Kumar. “The policeman has said he was monitoring social media when he came across a tweet from a handle named ‘Hanuman Bhakt’, objecting to Mr Zubair’s tweet.”
“Transmission and publication of such posts has been deliberately done by Mohammed Zubair@zoo_bear through electronic media to insult the religious feelings of a particular community with the intent to provoke breach of peace…,” the FIR states.
Alt News co-founder Pratik Sinha yesterday tweeted that Mr Zubair was called to Delhi for questioning in a different case from 2020, in which the court has given him protection from arrest. But he was arrested in this new case instead, without notice, Mr Sinha said. “No FIR copy is being given to us despite repeated requests.”
Muslim Journalist who raised voice over BJP leader’s blasphemous remarks arrested in India
Islamabad: Indian has arrested a muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair who raised the issue of outrageous comments about Prophet Muhammad SAW. The authorities have used a 2018 tweet as an alibi of his detention saying that five year old tweet was “highly provocative and more than sufficient to incite feeling of hatred” among people.
According to reports aDelhi Police First Information Report (FIR) has used the old tweet to take Zubair behind bars.
Zubair is the co-founder of fact-check site Alt News, raised the voice on blatant blashphemy on Indian news channel by core BJP leaders. India was left red faced after Arab nations reacted sharply and markets began boycotting Indian productes.
The journalist has been facing slanderous campaign since.
In his old tweet Zubair had shared a clip from legendary filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1983 classic Kissi Se Na Kehna.
The image shows a hotel board that reads “Hanuman Hotel” in Hindi. Paint marks suggest that it was earlier called ‘Honeymoon Hotel’ and the “Honeymoon” was changed to “Hanuman”.
Mr Zubair wrote in the tweet, “Before 2014: Honeymoon Hotel, After 2014: Hanuman Hotel”.
“Mr Zubair was charged with hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity and was sent to police custody for a day. The police asked for a week’s custody but the magistrate didn’t allow it,” media report claimed.
https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.519.0_en.html#goog_1870316622 The farcical tactic use in the case says that the FIR was lodged on a complaint by Delhi Police Sub-Inspector Arun Kumar. “The policeman has said he was monitoring social media when he came across a tweet from a handle named ‘Hanuman Bhakt’, objecting to Mr Zubair’s tweet.”
“Transmission and publication of such posts has been deliberately done by Mohammed Zubair@zoo_bear through electronic media to insult the religious feelings of a particular community with the intent to provoke breach of peace…,” the FIR states.
Alt News co-founder Pratik Sinha yesterday tweeted that Mr Zubair was called to Delhi for questioning in a different case from 2020, in which the court has given him protection from arrest. But he was arrested in this new case instead, without notice, Mr Sinha said. “No FIR copy is being given to us despite repeated requests.”
