Posts tagged lynching in India
Docuseries: Their son was lynched for being Muslim in India
Docuseries: Their son was lynched for being Muslim in India

Three years after the lynching of 16-year-old Junaid Khan in India, “The Dinner Table” host Harshita Rathore meets his family for a heart-to-heart conversation over a meal. In the first episode of the docuseries produced by Newsreel, the Khans share what it’s like to experience grief and discrimination as Muslims in India, who have faced increasing incidents of violence and hate crimes by Hindu nationalists since 2014.

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Asia, NewsHarshita RathoreVishal Arora, Junaid Khan, lynching in India, Muslims in India, anti-Muslim, Modi, BJP, Hindu nationalists, Primary Feature, RechargeComment
Attacks on Muslims and Christians Continue to Rise in India
Attacks on Muslims and Christians Continue to Rise in India

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election in 2014 and reelection this May, brutal mob attacks by Hindu nationalist groups against India’s Muslim and Christian minorities have continued to steadily rise.

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Asia, News, Politics, Primary Feature, Religion, Religion News, Religious EqualityAvinash GiriAvinash Giri, Narendra Modi, mob attacks India, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Muslim persecution, attacks against minorities India, lynching in India, Mob lynching, Hindu nationalism, Bajrang Dal, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Christian persecution, Pakistan, Primary Feature, Secondary Feature, Muslims, Christians