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By Archis Chowdhury Recently, Time magazine published its 'list of favourites' for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022, which featured the names of Indian fact-checkers Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair - who are the co-founders of fact-checking website Alt News. While many social media users took to Twitter to congratulate the duo on their nomination, there was also a backlash against Time, with many questioning the credibility of the article. The latter group shared screenshots of the nomination procedure from the official website of Nobel Prize, which mentioned that the names of the nominees are not ...
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By Ritika Jain The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair on a bond of Rs. 20,0000 each in all the FIRs filed against him by UP Police. The top court directed Tihar Jail to ensure that Zubair is released by 6 pm today once the bail bonds have been filed. In a series of directions, the top court transferred all FIRs and their probe to the Delhi Police Special Cell. The UP police SIT is rendered redundant and disbanded, the bench led by Justice DY Chandrachud said. The direction to transfer all UP FIRs to Delhi Police Special Cell shall apply to future FIRs...
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By Ritika Jain The Supreme Court observed that there appeared to be a vicious cycle wherein as soon as Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair got bail in one matter, he found himself arrested in a different case. The top court directed Uttar Pradesh police from taking "precipitative action" against Zubair till July 20 when it would hear his plea seeking to quash all the UP FIRs filed against him. "The contents of all the FIRs seem to be similar. What seems to be happening is, as he gets bail in one case, he is remanded in another. This vicious cycle is continuing," Justice DY Chandrachud observed...
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By Ritika Jain A Delhi Court on Friday said voices of dissent are necessary for a healthy democracy while granting bail to Alt New co-founder Mohammed Zubair. Therefore, invoking sections 153A (promoting enmity between religions) and 295A (outraging religious feelings) is not justified merely over criticism of any political party, the court added. "Democracy is a government by the people via open discussion. Democracy can neither work nor prosper unless people go to share their views. Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India gives freedom of speech and expression to its citizen," Addition...
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By Ritika Jain A Delhi Court on Friday granted bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in the case where he was arrested over a four-year-old tweet. Zubair has been granted bail on furnishing a Rs 50,000 bail bond and he has been barred from leaving the country without permission. However, even though Zubair is free from Tihar Jail in Delhi, he will remain in the custody of UP police since he has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody in two of the six FIRs registered against him in the state. The order in this case is awaited. The 41-year-old fact checker was arrested on June 27, ...
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By Saurav Das The arrest of Mohammed Zubair, journalist and co-founder of a fact-checking news website Alt News has sparked outrage not only on the issue of falling press freedom in India, but also on the issue of data privacy. On June 27, Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police for his four-year-old tweet referencing a still from a 32-year-old Bollywood movie. The Police alleged that his tweet "hurt religious sentiments". Later, the Police also alleged that he and his company violated provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) that bars non-profits from accessing foreign fun...
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By Ritika Jain The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Friday journalist Mohammed Zubair's plea seeking bail in the case where he called Hindu seers "spreaders of hate." Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves alleged death threats against the fact-checker as he sought an urgent listing of the case. "A look at the FIR shows that there is no crime...we are very worried about him, Gonsalves told the vacation bench of the Supreme Court. "There are death threats against him. Those making the hate speeches are very anxious and said they might try to kill him," the senior advocate added. Zubair, co-founder o...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar A Delhi Court on Saturday denied bail and remanded journalist Mohammed Zubair to 14 days of judicial custody. The court's order came after Zubair filed for bail when the Delhi Police submitted it was not seeking an extension of police custody. The Delhi Police however had sought 14 days judicial custody after fresh allegations emerged where Zubair is accused of receiving money through payment gateway Razorpay from Gulf countries and others like Pakistan and Syria. The police on Saturday added fresh charges accusing Zubair of destroying evidence, conspiracy and receivi...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team An anonymous Twitter handle whose only tweet got the Delhi police to arrest Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair on Monday for allegedly 'hurting religious sentiments' does not exist on social media anymore. Just a day after a Delhi court remanded Zubair to four days of police custody, the handle @balajikijaiin, which went by the name Hanuman Bhakt, no longer exists. The account, with a profile image of the Hindu deity Hanuman, had raised suspicions of being a sock-puppet account as it had only one tweet until Monday. The account objected to a tweet posted by Zubair in 2...
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By Ritika Jain A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair to four days police custody. The judge granting custody to Delhi police said Zubair has remained non-cooperative and further ruled the aim of allowing police custody was so that Zubair may be taken to Bengaluru to recover the phone and laptop that was used to post the alleged offensive tweet. Delhi Police arrested Zubair, co-founder of AltNews, a fact-checking site, on Monday on charges of hurting religious sentiments by tweeting an allegedly edited image. In a post-midnight hearing, a duty magistrate had reman...
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