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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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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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UP: Now, Sitapur court remands Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to 14-day judicial custody

LUCKNOW: Delhi Police on Monday brought Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to Sitapur in connection with a case registered against him for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through his tweet on Mahant Bajrang Muni, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati and Swami Anand Swaroop.

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Uttar Pradesh: Police bring Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair from Tihar, produce him in Sitapur court

The Times of India

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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Mohammed Zubair | The man who chased facts

The Alt News journalist was arrested over a tweet of an image from an old film

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Zubair denied bail, sent to 14-day judicial custody

A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair’s plea for bail and sent him in police custody for 14 more days, Live Law reported.

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Journalists rely on Delhi cop to report falsely on Zubair’s bail hearing

As a Delhi court was wrapping up the custody and bail hearing of Mohammed Zubair on Saturday, journalists, media organisations as well as news agency ANI reported that the Alt News journalist had been denied bail. The source appeared to be KPS Malhotra, head of the Delhi police’s cyber crime…

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Delhi Court rejects bail plea of Mohd Zubair, sends him to 14-day judicial custody

Zubair was produced before the court after his 4-day police remand came to an end today. The Delhi Police has sought his judicial custody. Read further on Dynamite News:

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TV Newsance 177: Kanhaiya Lal’s killing and cheering of Zubair’s arrest

This week, the news of Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s beheading in Udaipur by two extremist Muslim men, Gaus Mohammad and Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari, hit headlines. One would think there was nothing to “debate” about such a crime, but when does news TV disappoint? Times Now, where the entire Nupur Sharma…

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Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s home in Bengaluru searched

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Twitter account that led to Zubair’s arrest back online

The account’s June 19 tweet, its first since its creation in Oct. 2021, formed the basis for the FIR

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Sushant Rajput case to Zubair arrest: The rise and rise of cop KPS Malhotra

“Time is not a factor. An old tweet becomes new just by a retweet. Police action is contingent upon when police takes cognisance of an issue,” KPS Malhotra, deputy commissioner of Delhi police, told the news agency ANI after the cyber crimes division he heads arrested Alt News cofounder Muhammad…

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Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair moves Delhi HC against police remand

As per the trial court's order, Mohammed Zubair would be next produced before it on July 2 upon the expiry of the four-day police remand

The Hindu

Delhi High Court agrees to hear Zubair’s plea on Friday

Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair’s plea challenged his police remand in a case related to an objectionable tweet he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity.

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Zubair’s arrest: Five cases that illustrate Alt News cofounder's role in flagging hate speech online

On June 7, Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair posted the following on Twitter, after the social media platform sent him multiple emails about requests it had received from the police on Zubair’s tweets “violating” the law.

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