Hate Crime
India Hate Lab (IHL ) https://indiahatelab.com/ (it cannot be reached. is a project of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. Our objective is to document, analyze and study hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories that target India’s religious minorities, both in the digital realm and in offline spaces.
Through our in-depth quantitative and qualitative research, we aim to unravel the underlying causes and consequences of online hate on social media platforms and offline hate speech events for India’s 250 million minorities.
Their videos are available on youtube.. https://www.youtube.com/@csohate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3ChYC7NW0 Findings of Hate Speech Report Highlighted in Indian Parliament Indian MPs Amarendra Dhari Singh and Dr. John Brittas drew national attention to CSOH project India Hate Lab's recent report on anti-minority hate and dangerous speech by presenting its findings in India’s Upper House of Parliament, directly addressing Home Minister Amit Shah. Their intervention has sparked renewed debate on the urgent need to combat rising hate speech and safeguard minority communities.
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Okay now coming to hate speech in Washington
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Base Research Group India T Lab Recent 24
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2024 report on hate speech against
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Minorities in India have shot up by 74 per cent
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In 2024 from 668 incidents
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To 1165 in that is the incident per cent
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Uttar Pradesh with 242 incidents
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Maharashtra with 2 incidents and Madhya
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Pradesh with 98 incidents in top am sets
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Headship so what about the government
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Decision means what is the government doing so that sir now
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My friend was referring to the hate lab
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Report sir there is a 84 per cent search in
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incident of commune violence and most of
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these incidents have happened in BJP rule
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state sir so the home minister has to
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explain what is the past tem of the
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A 21-year-old Muslim man in Maharashtra was paraded and beaten to death and his family members assaulted when they attempted to save him over suspicion that he was close to a 17-year-old Hindu girl, reports say. Some of the reports have identified the accused as members of a Hindutva group.
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@AdityaMenon22 Quint has started a tracker for hate crimes and communal incidents. It's still a work in progress but we want to ensure no hate crime goes unreported.
https://www.thequint.com/quintlab/uncovering-hate-crime-tracker-communal-violence-india/ The Quint is committed to ensuring that no hate crime goes undocumented. Scroll down for verified information on the incidents of hate crime and communal violence that have taken place since June 2024...As of now, this tracker focuses on incidents of hate crime and communal violence that have take place since June 2024. An incident has been classified as a hate crime when either the authorities or the victim or the victim's family have confirmed a communal angle behind the incident. We are working constantly to make this list as exhaustive as possible...
https://www.thequint.com/uncovering-hate-investigations-ground-reports-and-deep-dives
'Hate crime': Minorities in Gujarat face targeted attacks; report reveals 55 incidents in 2022 https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2024/Jan/26/hate-crime-minorities-in-gujarat-face-targeted-attacks-report-reveals-55-incidents-in-2022 Report by the Minority Coordination Committee (MCC) documents a total of 55 unsettling incidents, with 53 assaults directed towards Muslims and two incidents targeting Christians, prompting a closer examination of the challenges faced by minority groups in the state.
The MCC report titled 'TARGETED: DOCUMENTING INCIDENTS AFFECTING MINORITIES IN GUJARAT' was released in October 2023, with seventy leaders from various areas of the state collaborating to acquire and compile material and produce the study.
Report for 2023: \6246 -Targeted_Report 2023.pdf" (to be uploaded)
‘Serious job’: How a collective in election-bound India fights hate speech https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/how-a-collective-in-indias-karnataka-is-standing-up-to-hate-ahead-of-polls Hate Speech Beda trains volunteers from across the southern state of Karnataka on using the law to combat hate crimes. It’s an uphill battle, but they’re not giving up.
India: Increased Abuses Against Minorities, Critics...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/11/india-increased-abuses-against-minorities-critics
The Indian government undermined its aspirations for global leadership as a rights- The BJP government’s discriminatory and divisive policies have led to increased
violence against minorities, creating a pervasive environment of fear and a chilling effect
on government critics,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at Human Rights
Watch. “Instead of holding those responsible for abuses to account, the authorities
chose to punish the victims, and persecuted anyone who questioned these actions.”
In the 740-page World Report 2024, its 34th edition, Human Rights Watch reviews
human rights practices in more than 100 countries.
Gujarat: Angry with Muslims Playing Well, Pro-Hindutva Locals Lynch Muslim Man at Cricket Match https://thewire.in/communalism/gujarat-cricket-match-muslim-lynching-death-hindutva
The Wire Staff 01/Jul/2024.. A crowd reportedly gathered and chanted in favour of hitting Vohra. His uncle noted that the attackers almost bit his ear off, that a knife wound had damaged his kidney and beaten on his lower waist and neck. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and then referred to a bigger one. He succumbed to his injuries at the second hospital.
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Subcategories
Hate Speech / Incitement to violence
Hate Speech Maharashtra
PUCL Maharashtra has decided to showcase information on Hate Speech in Maharashtra as presented in the different websites, social media of Civil Society organisations and concerned individuals. Each one has their own style of documentation and each one is a shining node. We hope to have a decentralised platform which will valorise whatever work individuals an organisations are doing, such that while they do their regular work of posting, creating websites, blogs, data directories, such that it can be searched, and researched, and help activist (information activist, if you will) curate this content into learning modules, state of the art reports.. letting a thousand nodes glow.
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A 21-year-old Muslim man was on Monday beaten to death allegedly by members of a Hindutva group in the town of Jamner in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district. The perpetrators allegedly assaulted Suleman Rahim Khan Pathan after he was seen with a Hindu woman from the same village at a cafe
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Two Muslim-owned restaurants in Wani, Yavatmal, were forcibly shut down by members of the Bajrang Dal
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At the “Samrast Yatra” event in Kurla, Mumbai, organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, a Jain monk disseminated hate speech rife with anti-Muslim propaganda.
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Rane’s speeches continued throughout the month of February, spreading more hateful conspiracy theories, and even suggesting that if Muslims “looked at Hindus in an incorrect manner,” they would face consequences. He stated that, “Our government is very bad. What is going on around I am aware of everything. You don’t have to struggle. Wherever something wrong is happening, wherever someone tries to slaughter a cow, wherever someone tries to smuggle, wherever green snakes try to wriggle, just make one call, and leave the rest of the arrangements to me., https://cjp.org.in/the-role-of-leaders-in-spreading-divisive-rhetoric/