Incitement to violence / Hate

Modi or Rahul, who is inciting violence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1uB2mJCYMw 15-7-24 Satya Hindi सत्य हिन्दी बीजेपी आईटी सेल के प्रमुख अमित मालवीय का ये आरोप कितना सही है कि राहुल गाँधी मोदी के ख़िलाफ़ हिंसा भड़का रहे हैं? क्या मोदी और बीजेपी नेताओं के बयान कहीं ज़्यादा भड़काऊ नहीं हैं? प्रो. मुकेश कुमार के साथ चर्चा में शामिल हैं- प्रो. अपूर्वानंद, प्रो. आनंद कुमार और राहुल देव- How true is BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya's allegation that Rahul Gandhi is inciting violence against Modi? Aren't the statements of Modi and BJP leaders more provocative? Pro. Discussion with Mukesh Kumar included- Prof. Apoorvanand, Prof. Anand Kumar and Rahul Dev- https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjps-amit-malviya-draws-ire-over-remarks-on-assassination-of-congress-leaders-sack-this-guy-right-away-101721061253707.html Malviya drew parallel between the language used by the Democrats in the United States against Donald Trump and by the Congress leaders in India against Prime Minister Modi... “Before the Congress claims that their own leaders got assassinated, I want to remind them that they were assassinated for the political decisions that they took,” he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/how-a-collective-in-indias-karnataka-is-standing-up-to-hate-ahead-of-polls  

Mujahid Nafees, the convener of the Gujarat-based Minority Coordination Committee, said that as hate spreads, so does ghettoisation. He cited the example of Juhapura, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s biggest city, where the community became further ghettoised after the 2002 violence.

Nafees lives in Juhapura. “People prefer to stay in ghettos for their safety. It has its advantages but it pushes for a further marginalisation of Muslims,” he said.

Mamatha Yajaman, a women’s rights activist in Karnataka, said hate speech disproportionately affects women, especially from vulnerable Muslim and Dalit communities. Dalits fall at the bottom of India’s complex caste hierarchy and have faced centuries of discrimination.

And a report by the People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) in January said at least 84 instances of religious conflict occurred in Karnataka’s coastal districts last year, 44 of them listed under hate speech.

In February, a report by the India Hate Lab, a United States-based research group, documented about 700 hate speeches in the country in 2023.

PUCL Maharashtra urginge Strict action against BJP MLA T Raja Singh and others for the vitriolic communal propaganda FIR No. 95/2024 dated March 23, 2024. 

PUCL has also pointed out in its letter that T Raja Singh and speakers and the organisers at the rally indulged in inflammatory hate speech in flagrant violation of the order dated February 23, 2024 passed by the Bombay High Court and the undertaking submitted by T Raja Singh. However no further action has been taken against them.

PUCL has accordingly called upon the authorities to forthwith take steps to ensure that -
(1) Strict action is taken in FIR No. 95/2024 registered by Mira Road Police Station, including to arrest and prosecute the hate speech offenders accused in the crime.
(2) Sections 121-A, 153, 153-B, 504 and 505 of the IPC are added to FIR No. 95/2024 and names of other organisers, speakers responsible for the crime be included in the case.
(3) Independent, fair and timely investigation is conducted in FIR No. 95/2024 registered by Mira Road Police Station, considering the inaction displayed by the police.
(4) Immediate steps are taken against police officers who are guilty of dereliction of their duty, by failing to prevent communal hate speech at the rally on 25th February 2024, stopping the rally and taking action against the perpetrators, delaying the filing of FIR and taking further steps towards investigating and prosecuting the crime, including the arrest of the accused.
(5) The aforesaid Supreme Court orders are strictly implemented in letter and spirit, by taking suo moto action against hate speech, registering FIRs and prosecuting the offenders of hate speech for their crimes at the earliest.
(6) Communal hate speech is prevented in Maharashtra at all costs and strict action is initiated to ensure that Sakal Hindu Samaj and its speakers are not permitted to commit even a single more offence of hate speech.
(7) Police action is initiated to investigate all the incidents of communal hate speech made at all the earlier rallies and public events organized by Sakal Hindu Samaj in Maharashtra and take all measures to ensure that such incidents do not occur in the future.

Fighting hate speech in Indian media| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHBjlkDJEQA  Dhanya Rajendran The News Minute
Feb 18, 2024 #islamophobia #hatespeech #india
Hate speech in the media and by media persons has been on the rise for a few years. Most citizens condemn hate speech, but are not sure what action they can take about it. In this episode of ‘No Filter with Dhanya Rajendran’, we meet a group in Bengaluru that is fighting hate speech, particularly against the media. They are called Hate Speech Beda and have got censure orders against quite a few media houses for hateful and communal speech.

https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/campaign-against-hate-speech-v-state-of-karnataka/

https://en.unesco.org/5-ways-to-counter-hate-speech