Condemning the arrest of Muhammad Zubair, co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News, journalist bodies have demanded his immediate release.
The Editors Guild of India (EGI), in a statement, said: “In a bizarre turn of events, Zubair was called in for questioning by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police in a case from 2020 for which he already had a protection against arrest from the Delhi High Court. However, when Zubair responded to the summons, he was arrested in relation to a criminal investigation initiated earlier in the month, after an anonymous twitter handle alleged that Zubair’s 2018 post was hurting religious sentiments.”
