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Police clear citizenship law protest site in Indian capital, citing virus lockdown
Mar 24, 2020 12:53Police have cleared out a long-running protest against a controversial citizenship law in the Indian capital, New Delhi, citing the a recently-announced lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
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India hangs four over 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape
Mar 20, 2020 05:42India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.
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Coronavirus cases surge in South Asia as countries try to stem epidemic
Mar 18, 2020 13:35The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Indian subcontinent has topped 500 amid fears that inadequate health facilities could be overwhelmed in a region home to nearly 1.9 billion people.
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India’s Supreme Court must use legal methods to end discrimination against Muslims: Iran’s Guardian Council
Mar 15, 2020 04:04A member of Iran's Guardian Council, Hadi Tahan Nazif, has called on India's Supreme Court to use all legal methods and procedures to pave the way for the repeal of a discriminatory law against Muslims in the South Asian country.
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Police responsible for New Delhi violence, not Muslims: Indian police admit
Mar 14, 2020 13:27The Indian police have openly confessed to the closure of a route in the country’s capital of New Delhi that turned into a scene of deadly brutal clashes last month between Hindu nationalist mobs and Muslim protesters, a fact that members of the Muslim community in India have been insisting on since the anti-government rallies started there.
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Indian pilgrims in Iran protest New Delhi’s failure to consider evacuation request
Mar 12, 2020 10:17A group of Indian pilgrims in Iran have gathered in front of their country’s embassy in Tehran to denounce the New Delhi government’s failure to consider their demand for evacuation after more than two weeks of being stranded over fears of exposure to the new coronavirus.
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Indian police involved in violence against Muslims
Mar 12, 2020 10:14Indian police engaged in direct violence against Muslims and helped Hindu mobs in their atrocities against Muslims, or just stood aside watching, as Hindu extremists targeted the Muslim minority in the capital, New Delhi, last month, a new report shows.
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Iran's Assembly of Experts urges India to stop violence against Muslims
Mar 11, 2020 04:59Iran’s Assembly of Experts has denounced the massacre of Muslims and the destruction of mosques and religious places at the hands of pro-government Hindu mobs in India, urging New Delhi to take swift action to end the crimes.
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India ingratiating itself with US through anti-Muslim violence: Iranian MP
Mar 09, 2020 02:30Spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini condemned recent killings of Muslims in India and said the New Delhi government is ingratiating itself with the US by remaining silent on such crimes.
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Iran: NGOs, student organizations urge UN to end brutality against Muslims in India
Mar 08, 2020 16:07A large group of Iranian student organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals have penned a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, asking her to take decisive action to end the ongoing wave of violent attacks and brutality against Muslims in India.