: Centre targeting Mohammed Zubair to make media afraid of demanding accountability, says Alt News #IndiaNEWS Fact-checking website Alt News on Saturday said that journalist Mohammed Zubair was being

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Centre targeting Mohammed Zubair to make media afraid of demanding accountability, says Alt News #IndiaNEWS
Fact-checking website Alt News on Saturday said that journalist Mohammed Zubair was being targeted so that media organisations are afraid of demanding accountability from the establishment.“Our friend and colleague Mohammed Zubair, who is also the co-founder of Alt News, continues to be hounded as the establishment is embroiling him in one case after another,â€? the website said in a statement. “However, the organisation stands firmly behind Zubair and will support his fight in every way.â€?Our statement on the brazen and selective targeting of our friend and colleague Mohammed Zubair. pic.twitter.com/brciZ4ezLF— Alt News (@AltNews) July 9, 2022 The journalist was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 27 for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through a tweet that he had posted in March 2018. Subsequently, the police also charged Zubair with criminal conspiracy, causing the disappearance of evidence and violating foreign funding norms.Days later, the police in Uttar Pradesh wanted his custody for calling three Hindutva supremacists as hatemongers in a tweet. Notably, all three of the seers – Yati Narasinghanand Saraswati, Bajrang Muni and Anand Swaroop – have been booked in hate speech cases in the past few months for making inflammatory statements about Muslims.On June 1, the Uttar Pradesh Police booked Zubair under Section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings) of...Read more

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