Month: June 2023

The Uttar Pradesh Police mercilessly assaulted a Muslim man after the latter asked a police officer to take off his shoes before entering the mosque premises. As per a report by Muslim Mirror, Junaid Babu, a resident of Darvespur village in Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh said that e police officials, who had arrived to remove the loudspeaker used for the Azaan (call to prayer) at the mosque, of attempting to enter the mosque premises while still wearing their shoes. Despite Junaid’s request for the police officers to remove their shoes, they disregarded his pleas and proceeded to remove the loudspeaker. Upon their return, the officers became agitated with Junaid’s insistence on the shoe removal and confronted him, stating “‘Ye zyada bol raha hai’ (He is speaking too much).” https://tw...

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has said that Twitter received numerous requests from India to block accounts related to Farmers' Protests and those who were critical of the government. Jack, during a live show, mentioned that during the farmers protest India had put pressure on Twitter, including threats of shutting down the platform in the country, conducting raids on employees' homes, and closing down Twitter offices, if Twitter did not comply. “‘We would raid the homes of your employees', which they did; ‘we will shut down your offices if you don't follow suit’. And this is India, a democratic country," said Dorsey on ‘pressure’ from India. Dorsey’s comments came as he was asked to give some examples of pressure from foreign governments so that the audience had an idea how it felt...