Washington, D.C. (January 13, 2026 – The India Hate Lab (IHL), a project of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), has released its 2025 annual report documenting 1,318 in-person hate speech events targeting religious minorities, primarily Muslims and Christians, across 21 states, one Union Territory, and the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi in 2025. This represents a 13% increase from 2024, and 97% increase from 2023, when 668 such incidents were recorded.
The hate speech events were categorized using the United Nations definition of hate speech and included the use of conspiracy theories, calls for violence and arms, appeals for social or economic boycotts, demands to seize or destroy places of worship, dehumanizing language, and speeches targeting Rohingya refugees living in India.
A total of 1,289 speeches, or 98 percent, targeted Muslims, either explicitly in 1,156 cases or alongside Christians in 133 cases, marking a nearly 12 percent increase from 2024. Hate speech targeting Christians was recorded in 162 incidents, accounting for 12 percent of all events, either explicitly in 29 cases or alongside Muslims in 133 cases. This reflects a 41 percent increase from the 115 anti-Christian hate speech incidents documented in 2024.