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India court orders release of journalist Mohammed Zubair on bail

Mohammed Zubair is a vocal critic of Indian PM Narendra Modi [File: Mohammed Zubair's Twitter handle/Al Jazeera]

India’s Supreme Court has ordered the release on bail of a prominent journalist arrested last month over what police said was a “highly provocative” 2018 tweet aimed at straining ties between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.

Mohammed Zubair, a co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News and vocal critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was arrested after an anonymous Twitter user lodged a complaint over the four-year-old post.

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