Channel News Asia: Anti-Muslim hate speech soars in India
About 75 per cent, or 498, of those incidents took place in states governed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to the report. The states of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh accounted for the most hate speech. Read More
The Hindu: 75% of hate speech events in BJP-ruled States
In 2023, India recorded 668 documented hate speech events that targeted Muslims, according to a report released by India Hate Lab, a Washington DC-based group that documents hate speech against India’s religious minorities. The report, titled ‘Hate Speech Events in India’, noted that while 255 events took place in the first half of 2023, “the […]
Times of India: Uttarakhand recorded 41 hate speech events in 2023
Uttarakhand recorded “41 instances of hate speech”, ranking sixth among the 10 states with the highest number of such incidents Read More
The Leaflet: 2024 ‘critical year’ for hate speech in India, warns new report
This analysis by India Hate Lab gains significance in the backdrop of the 2024 general elections in India, which are only months away. India Hate Lab is a Washington DC-based research group run by a dedicated team of journalists, academicians and researchers. The objective of the research group is to document, study and analyse hate […]
The Quint: Why The India Hate Lab Report Should Worry Us
A total of 668 hate speech events were recorded in 2023. This is what the latest India Hate Lab report 2023 has put forth as it reveals alarming trends and damning revelations when it comes to the rapid rise of hate speech events in India and its consequences. In an election year that India finds […]
Newsclick: 668 instances of hate speech in India in 2023
The report has revealed harrowing figures of hate speech on the rise in India. The data by the group features BJP, India’s ruling party, as a significant player in the functioning of hate speeches. The report stated that 498 out of 668 instances of hate speech took place in areas which had a BJP-led government. […]
The Wire: Hate Speech— How to Promote Amity?
All this becomes ratified in the latest report released by ‘India Hate Lab’, a Washington DC-based group that documents hate speech against India’s religious minorities. The report with the title ‘Hate Speech Events in India’, notes that while 255 events took place in the first half of 2023, “the number rose to 413 in the second half […]
Scroll: BJP-ruled states accounted for 75% of anti-Muslim hate speech events in 2023
Out of 668 documented anti-Muslim hate speech incidents in India last year, 498 or 75% took place in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, a report by Washington-based research group India Hate Lab said on Monday. The researchers used the United Nations’ definition of hate speech which describes it as pejorative or discriminatory language towards an individual or group based […]
Newslaundry: 668 hate speech events held in India in 2023, most of them in BJP states
India witnessed 668 documented hate speech events targeting Muslims in 2023, and at least 75 percent of these events were organised in BJP-governed states and UTs, and the national capital, as per a report by watchdog India Hate Lab. India Hate Lab is a Washington, DC-based research group run by journalists, academicians and researchers. In […]
ABP News: 1 साल में 62% बढ़ी मुस्लिम विरोधी हेट स्पीच, 75% घटनाएं BJP शासित सूबों से
हिंदुस्तान में साल 2023 के शुरुआती 6 महीनों की तुलना में दूसरी छमाही में मुसलमान विरोधी हेट स्पीच (नफरत वाले भाषण) में 62 फीसदी इजाफा हुआ है. यह खुलासा अमेरिका के वॉशिंगटन में इंडिया हेट लैब (आईएचएल) रिसर्च ग्रुप की रिपोर्ट के जरिए हुआ है. सोमवार (26 फरवरी, 2024) को शोध समूह की ओर से […]