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By Chiranjeevi Bhat On Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
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The Shocking History of Amnesty International

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has raided Amnesty International’s Bangalore office. While Amnesty claims that this is an attack on their freedom, media is reporting that the raids are due to Amnesty violating More...

Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest - Mayanmar Hindus
By IndiaFacts Staff On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
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Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest: January – March 2018

January Love Jihad case in Bahgpat UP A Muslim impostor named Shadab, pretending to be a Hindu Siddhant Choudhary, deceived an adolescent Hindu girl by making false promises, and convinced her to elope. This was More...

Monthly Persecution Digest against Hindus - Nov Dec 2017 - Bangladesh Hindu village burnt
By IndiaFacts Staff On Friday, January 12th, 2018
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Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest: November – December 2017

November Hindu girl Chayanika Kumari murdered by Muslim boyfriend in Jharkhand Mirza Rafiqul Haque, a Kolkata based doctor, murdered Chayanika Kumari (30), his girlfriend for refusing to convert to Islam and marry More...

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By IndiaFacts Staff On Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
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Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest: September – October 2017

Hindu Persecution in September 2017 Muslim Family of 8 attacks Hindu man and his mother A 31 year old Hindu man and his mother in NTR colony in Kuppam of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh were brutally attacked More...

By IndiaFacts Staff On Saturday, October 7th, 2017
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Monthly Hindu Persecution Digest: June- August 2017

June 1. Bajrang Dal workers assaulted in BJP-ruled Jharkhand for chanting ‘Jai Sri Ram’ According to a report published in Dainik Jagran, Bajrang Dal activists were beaten by Muslim radicals in Chistia district More...

By IndiaFacts Staff On Saturday, August 26th, 2017
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IndiaFacts Hindu Human Rights Report launched at New Delhi: A Report

IndiaFacts in collaboration with Srijan Foundation launched India’s first ever Hindu Human Rights Report documenting both systematic and episodic violations of human rights, including sanctioned discrimination More...

By IndiaFacts Staff On Monday, August 14th, 2017
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IndiaFacts to Launch Hindu Human Rights Report 2017 on August 19

There is no dearth of Human Rights Reports being produced about India. But most of these exclude a large percentage of the human rights violations in India on the mistaken premise that rights violations in India More...

By Ashay Naik On Thursday, December 8th, 2016
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Language and Discourse: Why the issue is not merely about Sanskrit or English

With the rapid spread of English in India, most Indians are worried about the future of Indian languages, especially Sanskrit. It is also observed that learning is less efficient when conducted through a foreign More...

By Mayuresh Didolkar On Friday, August 26th, 2016
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Amnesty India: Hypocrisy And Tyranny Of The Unelected

In season four, episode 11 of Boston Legal, the brilliant but quirky lawyer Jerry Espenson makes this opening statement arguing on behalf of a woman suing a law firm that encouraged her husband for seeking divorce: “I More...

By Surendra Chandra On Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
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Questions for Amnesty International’s Christine Mehta

In an article in the Hindu dated 2 July 2015, a certain Christine Mehta, an employee of Amnesty International and an American citizen, has interesting things to say. She describes the situation in which her OCI More...