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Muslim student from JNU falsely blamed for ‘masterminding’ violence at the university

Jignesh Patel7th January 20207th January 2020

On January 6, 2019, Bollywood filmmaker Ashoke Pandit tweeted two screenshots – a Facebook post by JNU student Afzal Husain Khan and a screenshot of Khan’s Facebook bio – and…

JNU Violence: ABVP, BJP office-bearers falsely claim SFI activist ‘faked’ injuries

Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha7th January 20208th January 2020

On January 7, Ashish Chauhan, national secretary of RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), tweeted photographs of Soori Krishnan, an activist with CPI’s student wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI)….

Old, unrelated images viral as sex toys, condoms found inside JNU campus

Archit7th January 2020

On January 6, a day after the recent attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) by masked assailants armed with lathis and iron rods, several social media users posted two images…

Video of ABVP member assaulting AISA student shared by journalists as Left parties attacking ABVP

Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha7th January 20208th January 2020

A video of a man in a red jacket beating up another person in green clothing is widely circulating on social media to espouse the claim that students associated with…

No, Umar Khalid did not raise “Hinduo se azadi” slogan at Gateway of India, Mumbai

Jignesh Patel & Mohammed Zubair6th January 20206th January 2020

BJP Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Bagga tweeted an 18-second clip of a protest at the Gateway of India, Mumbai on the intervening night of January 5-6. The protest was against the…

Image of symbolic ‘one eye bandaged’ protest shared as CAA protesters faking injury

Archit & Kinjal4th January 20209th January 2020

Since the past few days, an image of a Muslim woman with a bandage on her eye during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been shared by…

No, photo of mother breastfeeding baby through a fence is not related to NRC

Archit4th January 2020

On December 26, a Twitter user @RinaThakur_ shared a picture of a mother breastfeeding her child through a fence and claimed it depicts a detention centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi…

Video from Hyderabad viral as police arresting people in Assam after NRC

Archit4th January 2020

Several social media users have shared a 44-second video of police arresting civilians and claimed that the incident is from Assam after the implementation of the National Register of Citizens…

Pak PM Imran Khan shared old, unrelated videos as ‘pogrom’ against Muslims in India

Priyanka Jha & Pooja Chaudhuri3rd January 20203rd January 2020

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan shared a video claiming that it shows police brutality against Muslim in Uttar Pradesh. The PM tweeted, “Indian police’s pogrom against Muslims in UP.” But later…

2013 video from Bangladesh viral as police brutality after Assam NRC

Priyanka Jha3rd January 20203rd January 2020

In the backdrop of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a video is being widely shared on social media, especially WhatsApp, with…

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Four more Bengal constituencies, same pattern: Muslims disproportionately marked ‘Under Adjudication’ in SIR