This week’s #IndiaHumanRightsMonitor roundup by #iamcnews
Story #1
SLUG: Ram Temple celebrations marked with violence, vandalism
Muslims across several states in India including Maharashtra, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have reported physical and verbal harassment by Hindu mobs celebrating the recent consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya city, which was built on the site where the historic Babri Mosque was demolished by Hindu militants in 1992. Hindu extremist mobs have vandalized Muslim-owned properties and assaulted Muslims in cities across India.
Story #2
SLUG: Muslim man assaulted, paraded naked by Hindu extremists
In a disturbing incident in Telangana state, a Muslim man was brutally assaulted and publicly paraded naked by a Hindu extremist mob. They also attempted to set the man's private parts on fire, leaving him with cigarette burns. The extremists responsible justified the attack by claiming the man had disrespected a saffron flag.
Story #3
Hindu extremist mobs brutally assault Imam
In Chattisgarh state, a violent mob of Hindu extremists attacked a mosque's imam while chanting the warcry "Jai Sri Ram." Instead of arresting members of the mob, authorities have instead booked charges against the Imam.
Story #4
SLUG: Officials demolish 40 Muslim-owned structures
Officials in Mumbai bulldozed around 40 shops on Mohammed Ali Road, a Muslim-majority area a day after at least 15 structures were bulldozed on Muslim-majority Mira Road. Both areas were the target of Hindu supremacist mob violence and provocation.
Story #5
SLUG: Hindu mob hoist saffron flag atop mosque
A mob of over 1000 Hindu extremists celebrating the Ram Temple forcefully entered a Mughal-era mosque in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh’s Agra, vandalizing it by placing saffron flags on its minarets and in its interior.
Story #6
SLUG: Hindu militants disrupt screening on Babri mosque
Members of the violent Hindu paramilitary group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh disrupted public screenings of the documentary Ram Ke Naam, which covers the demolition of the Babri Masjid, in Telangana and Kerala state. The militants harassed and gave death threats to those gathered at the venue.
Story#7
SLUG: Hindu mob hoist saffron flag atop church
In Madhya Pradesh state, a member of a Hindu mob celebrating the Ram Temple inauguration climbed to the top of a church and vandalized it by planting a saffron flag with Hindu imagery on top amid chants of Jai Shri Ram.
Story #8
SLUG: Hindu supremacists call for replacing mosques with temples
Emboldened by the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple, Hindu supremacists like serial hatemonger Suresh Chavanke and BJP leader T Raja Singh have begun calling for replacing historic mosques with temples in Kashi and Mathura cities.
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