Hate Speech

Hate speech: Owaisi questioned for second day

Police continued to question MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi for the second day on Sunday for his hate speech against Hindus. Investigating officers began questioning the legislator at 10 am on Sunday in Adilabad town, about 300 km from Hyderabad. ...  

Adilabad: Police question Owaisi in hate speech case

Police on Saturday began the interrogation of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, booked for alleged sedition and criminal conspiracy for his "hate speech", a day after getting his five-day custody from a court in Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh. ...  

Hate speech: Owaisi sent to police custody

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has been sent to five-day police custody starting Saturday. ...  

Will online freedom of speech decrease even further?

The internet's a brave new world in so many ways-driven by the young invigorating the old. About 150 million Indians are on the web now. Earlier, to express ideas publicly, you had to go through a newspaper, magazine, TV or a radio station before. The guardians of media regulated how such ideas were expressed, and published your ideas if you were important enough, if you followed the outlet's editorial line,...  

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Hate speech charges against Owaisi baseless: MIM

Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on Thursday said the allegations of hate speech levelled against party MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi were "baseless" and the matter would be decided in the courts. ...  

There is every possibility that Hyderabad turns into one more Kashmir valley: K Nageshwar

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has been arrested on the charge of not cooperating with the police in connection with the hate speech case against him. Political analyst & independent member of Andhra Pradesh legislative council K Nageshwar shared his perspective in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...  

Stop media trial of Akbaruddin Owaisi, says his brother

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi, the brother of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, spoke to CNN IBN and said the media trial of Akbaruddin Owaisi should stop. ...  

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Newsmaker of the Day: Asaduddin Owaisi

MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi who was arrested on Tuesday for a hate speech has now been charged for waging war against the state and sedition. His plea to be transferred to a Hyderabad jail was rejected by a court on Wednesday. ...

Another probe ordered against Owaisi over hate speech

Another probe has been ordered against MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi over an alleged hate speech. A magistrate's court here today directed Kazipet police to investigate and register an FIR against Owaisi, following a complaint by advocate Kotha Ravi of Bapujinagar, Kazipet. ...  

Owaisi sent to 14-day custody, MIM supporters turn violent

MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi who was arrested on Tuesday for a hate speech has now been charged for waging war against the state and sedition. His plea to be transferred to a Hyderabad jail was rejected by a court on Wednesday. ...  

Hate speech: MIM supporters attack media vans in AP

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi's supporters on Wednesday attacked media vans in Adilabad after Owaisi was arrested and questioned overnight by the police. ...  

Hate speech: Owaisi sent to 14 days of judicial custody

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, arrested on the charge of not cooperating with the police in connection with the hate speech case against him, has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. Sources say Owaisi was arrested as the police officers were not convinced by the MLA's explanation that he had gone to London for medical treatment. ...  

Should Owaisi be debarred from participating in public life?

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has been arrested on the charge of not cooperating with the police in connection with the hate speech case against him. ...

Owaisi's arrest: MIM accuses Cong of maligning its image

MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi was arrested on Tuesday for his hate speech after a day-long drama in Hyderabad which saw him undergoing a series of medical tests. ...

Owaisi cooperated with police, was not shown his medical report: Lawyer

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has been arrested on the charge of not cooperating with the police in connection with the hate speech case against him. ...

Hate speech: MIM MLA Owaisi arrested

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has been arrested on the charge of not cooperating with the police in connection with the hate speech case against him. ...  

Akbaruddin Owaisi has hernia, bullet injury: Medical report

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has hernia problem in his abdomen and a bullet in his right thigh, according to his medical report that was finalised after he underwent a test at Gandhi hospital in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Owaisi, who has been booked for allegedly delivering hate speeches in December 2012, also has adhesions and one extra bone in his left forearm. He is also weak and...  

Congress going slow in hate speech case, trying to make MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi a hero: BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday alleged that the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was shielding All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi in the hate speech cases. Owaisi who returned on Monday morning from London where he had gone for medical treatment underwent a medical test at a hospital in Hyderabad, but the police are yet to arrest him despite two FIRs registered against him at Adilabad...