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Delhi court reserves order on Mohammed Zubair's bail plea

New Delhi A Delhi court on July 14 reserved the order on the bail plea filed by Alt News co-founder

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Alt News co-founder Zubair’s bail plea in Delhi case deferred to July 14

Mr. Zubair had moved a fresh bail application in this case before the court of Additional Sessions Judge Devendra Kumar Jangala

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Court adjourns Zubair’s bail hearing in Delhi case, SC extends interim bail in UP case

Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair’s bail plea – linked to an FIR filed in Delhi – has been adjourned and will now be heard on July 14, while his interim bail in another case filed in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur has been extended till September 7.

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Lakhimpur Kheri court sends Alt News co-founder Zubair to 14-day judicial custody

Lakhimpur Kheri (U.P.) A court in Uttar pradesh sent Alt News Co-founder Mohammed Zubair to 14-day j

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In case filed by Sudarshan News staffer, UP court sends Zubair to judicial custody for 14 days

A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri today sent Alt News cofounder Muhammed Zubair to 14 days in judicial custody. This is in connection with a case filed against Zubair last year by an employee of Sudarshan News.

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Now Lakhimpur police to seek Alt News Zubair’s custody

A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri has summoned Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair in a case registered on the charge of promoting enmity

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UP police issue warrant for Zubair in case filed by Sudarshan News staffer

The Uttar Pradesh police have issued a warrant for Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair, hours after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in another case registered in UP’s Sitapur. Zubair is accused of promoting enmity between two religious groups through a tweet he made last year.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 227: Sudhir Chaudhary quits Zee, Alt News deals with cofounder's arrest

In this episode, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh and Ashwine Kumar Singh.

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Alt News, CIA, ‘Hinduphobic’ media: The fixations of a rightwing ‘fact-checking’ enterprise

One could dismiss a Twitter account’s conspiracy theories – conjuring up an “anti-Hindu ecosystem” while linking together American philanthropist George Soros, communists, the London School of Economics, digital media and the Gandhis – as feverish hyperbole. But not when the account claims to be a fact-checker, is followed by senior…

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PAN, address of Alt News donors not shared with police, says Razorpay

Razorpay CEO issues statement after Alt News has said donor data shared without informing it

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Zubair insulted ‘respected religious leader’ Bajrang Muni's followers: UP police argue in Supreme Court

Mohammed Zubair got interim bail from the Supreme Court on Friday, but the Alt News cofounder will stay in custody. In a separate case, the court provided Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan protection from coercive police action.

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Indian court grants bail to Muslim journalist but detention to continue

India's top court granted bail on Friday to a Muslim journalist accused of insulting Hindu religious leaders on Twitter, after his arrest last month raised concerns over media freedom.

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Supreme Court grants interim bail to Mohammed Zubair in Sitapur case

The Alt News co-founder however, is in judicial custody on orders of a Delhi court in a separate case

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UP police granted seven-day custody of Alt News cofounder Zubair

A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur has granted the UP police custody of Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair until July 14.

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Was Razorpay legally bound to share Alt News’s data? Yes and no

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Supreme Court to take up on July 8 Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s plea for liberty, protection

Case to be “listed on July 8 before the appropriate Bench subject to assignment”. The Chief Justice of India has to formally assign the case to a Bench

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Quashing of UP FIR against Zubair: Supreme Court agrees to list matter tomorrow

The Supreme Court has agreed to list a hearing tomorrow on Mohammed Zubair challenging a high court order that refused to quash an FIR against him.

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'Journalists should not be persecuted': Germany's embassy in Delhi is 'closely monitoring' Zubair's arrest

Germany's embassy in New Delhi is "monitoring very closely" the arrest of Alt News cofounder Muhammed Zubair and is also "in contact" with its "EU partners on the ground", a representative of the German foreign ministry has said.

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Inside the Alt News office after Mohammed Zubair’s arrest

It had seemed a regular Monday evening for Kalim Ahmed, 22, a writer at Alt News, when he reached home after shutting his office in Kolkata on June 27. But then a message from the factchecking platform’s director Nirjhari Sinha popped on his screen, informing him of the arrest of…

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Zubair case: CJAR demands probe after police ‘revealed’ information to media before court order

The Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms issued a statement today expressing concerns about the conduct of the police in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in Mohammed Zubair’s case.

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Alt News denies FCRA violations

Razorpay blocks donations to Alt News for a day after FCRA charges

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Alt News says FCRA violation claims categorically false, staff only gets monthly salary

Amid claims that Alt News cofounder Mohammad Zubair received donations in his personal account and the organisation took money from countries such as Pakistan in violation of the law, the fact-checking website on Monday said the claims are “categorically false” and called them “an attempt to shut down the critical…

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