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Topic: Hate crimes

Bus ambush, riot, blasts at Friday prayers — Pakistan’s bloody history of violence against Shias

Raghav Bikhchandani - 5 March, 2022

Blast at a Shia mosque in Peshawar Friday killed at least 30 people. According to South Asia Terrorism Portal, nearly 2,700 Shias were killed in Pakistan between 2001 & June 2018.

NCRB stopped collecting data on lynching, hate crime as it was ‘unreliable’, govt tells LS

Ananya Bhardwaj - 21 December, 2021

The National Crime Records Bureau discontinued collecting hate crime data after 2017, and the term ‘anti-national’ is not defined in law, the government told Parliament Tuesday.

Constitution, Indian nationalism can defeat Hindutva. We can’t be silent on anti-Muslim hate

Khalil ur Rehaman Savanur - 18 August, 2021

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Singer Billie Eilish says sorry for anti-Asian, racial slur as her old video goes viral

Tenzin Zompa - 23 June, 2021

One of the clips in the video also showed Billie Eilish 'mocking' Asian accent while another recorded Eilish’s brother, Finneas, allegedly calling her out for 'talking with a blaccent'.

UP Police sends notice to Twitter India MD over assault on Muslim man in Ghaziabad

PTI - 18 June, 2021

Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari has been asked to join the probe in the case. The platform has been booked over circulation of a video in which the elderly man says he was thrashed.

Singapore police investigate another hate crime against Indian family

Gurdip Singh - 13 May, 2021

On 2 May, a 47-year-old man had allegedly uttered offensive remarks towards an Indian family and confronted a male member of the family for not wearing his mask.

UN chief ‘concerned’ over violence against Asians, people of Asian descent during pandemic

Yoshita Singh - 23 March, 2021

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' statement comes against the backdrop of multiple shootings this month around Atlanta that killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women.

Hate crimes against Asian-Americans are ‘un-American and must stop’, says President Biden

Lalit K Jha - 12 March, 2021

A surge in anti-Asian attacks has been reported since the start of the pandemic. The actual number of hate incidents against them may be higher, according to a civil rights group.

First Arab world, now Canada saying enough is enough to Muslim-hating overseas Indians

Saif Ullah Khan - 8 May, 2020

A firm in Canada ended ties with an Indian over his Islamophobic tweet. But little has changed in India despite Arab world calling out rising hate against Muslims.

Houston Police change dress code policy for personnel in honour of Sikh cop killed on duty

PTI - 19 November, 2019

Houston Police said it was allowing minority community personnel wear articles of faith while on duty in tribute to Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, who was allowed to wear his turban with his uniform.

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