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Germany tells India to stop jailing journalists, reminds it that it is ‘the world’s largest democracy’

India’s foreign ministry has criticised the ‘unhelpful’ and ‘uninformed’ remarks, saying the independence of its judiciary is ‘well-recognised’

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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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Zubair denied bail in U.P. case, sent to six days in police custody

Court notes that it ‘seems important to seize mobile phone’ the journalist used for tweet

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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

The Hindu

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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I hang my head in shame: Kapil Sibal on state of judiciary

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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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Over 100 concerned citizens demand immediate release of Mohammed Zubair

“We apprehend that police may tamper with the seized material and build a false conspiracy to implicate him”

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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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Delhi Police officer admits to improper leak about Mohammed Zubair’s bail plea

Mr. Zubair’s lawyer called it ‘scandalous’ and said the court was yet to pronounce its order.

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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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High Court issues notice to Delhi Police on Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s plea against police remand

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India top court: Nupur Sharma must apologise for prophet remarks

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The police and the journalist

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

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