Twitter suspended Ahmed Khabeer’s account from the microblogging platform. Khabeer works with the news portal ‘The Jamia Times,’ and was active on Twitter in raising issues regarding the harassment faced by the Muslims of India under the current dispensation.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Ahmed Khabeer who’s the founding editor of The Jamia Times said that the fact that there’s been no outcry over the suspension of his Twitter account was yet another act that demonstrates the growing islamophobia in India.
However, it was big news when Elon Musk suspended the Twitter accounts of at least nine tech journalists last week (over alleged dox-ing) and then reinstated them this week after Twitter users demanded as much, the statement said.
Ahmed said that he woke up on December 22 to read a notice from Twitter that his account had been “suspended after careful review.”
He said that he was given no reason for the suspension, and that despite the assurance that he will be able to appeal against the suspension if he thought the decision was wrong, he hasn’t been able to appeal against the suspension.
“My account was suspended after being reported by a pro-Hindutva group @IndianCDefender on a tweet regarding controversial training by a VHP leader in Uttar Pradesh,” he said.
He said that the only reason for his account’s suspension would seem to be that he is an Indian Muslim and speaks up for human and civil rights against fascist islamophobes in India, since his case has elicited no concern in the press, let alone efforts to discover the pretext for the action.