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A Muslim scholar was lynched to death by a mob for making allegedly blasphemous remarks at a political rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, police said.. Maulana Nigar Alam, 40, was ...
The driver was transporting carcasses of dead cattle to disposal plant in Chhajarsi village but the cow vigilantes were spreading fake news about cow slaughter to the crowd which created ruckus. [65] 23 September 2019 Khunti, Jharkhand: 1 2 Three tribal men were beaten by Bajrang dal people on the suspicion of selling beef in Khunti.
Diyawadanage Don Nandasiri Priyantha Kumara [2] was a resident of Ganemulla, Gampaha District, Sri Lanka.He was the youngest of six siblings. [11] He graduated from the University of Peradeniya in 2002 as a production engineer and had been working in Pakistan since 2010.
Media coverage over the killings and efforts to debunk fake news have also been concentrated in the English and Hindi language media, with little attention given to local language reporting. [4] On 4 July 2018 – WhatsApp offered $50,000 in funding for researchers to develop technological and social ideas that prevent the spread of fake news. [5]
Blasphemy is a very serious crime in Pakistan, for which the maximum penalty is death. [1] Pakistan has sentenced people convicted of blasphemy to death, although it has not executed any of them. Some people who were accused of blasphemy have been lynched, including Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot, Punjab, in 2021 and Mushtaq Ahmed in Tulamba ...
The 2017 Nowhatta mob lynching, was the lynch mob murder and mutilation of an on-duty undercover Indian Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Muhammad Ayub Pandith, on the Muslim holy night of Laylat al-Qadr on Thursday 22 June 2017 by a mob in Nowhatta after a crowd shouted slogans in favor of Pakistan as well as al-Qaida jihadist Zakir Musa.
Fake news isn't just an American problem, or a political problem, or a Facebook problem or a Twitter problem. Yesterday, the Washington Post reports five people were killed in a lynching in India ...
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