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Netizens flood Twitter with memes after Elon Musk acquires the social media platform

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Netizens flood Twitter with memes after Elon Musk acquires the social media platform

Hours after Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over the ownership of Twitter Inc., his elated supporters flooded the micro-blogging platform with hilarious memes.

The happiness of advocates of ‘free speech’ knew no bounds when it came to light that Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and its Legal Head (also known as chief censor) Vijaya Gadde were sacked by Musk.

Popular Twiter user ‘Wall Street Silver’ shared a video of the unceremonious ouster of former Chinese President Hu Jintao from the Communist Party’s congress’s closing ceremony and juxtaposed it with Parag Agrawal’s image.

Another user posted a digitally altered video wherein a jovial Elon Musk was seen dumping the ex-Twitter CEO into a river.

In another meme video, Elon Musk was seen slamming the door in the face of Parag Agrawal. According to a Reuters report, Parag Agrawal was ‘escorted out’ of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco immediately after the deal was sealed.

Twitter users also pointed out how the left-liberal ecosystem went into overdrive, following the acquisition of the micro-blogging platform by Elon Musk. Video about left-liberals, behaving in a hysterical and erratic manner, are doing the rounds of the internet.

While emphasising on the hypocrisy of left-liberals, one Niners Dan wrote, “I am leaving this group. But, first I am going to post about leaving this group. Then, I am gonna stick around to see what everybody thinks about me leaving the group.”

After the Tesla CEO took over Twitter, he posted about the development on his Twitter timeline. “The bird (referring to Twitter mascot) is freed,” he wrote. As such, one user posted a meme video of Elon Musk releasing birds, which were kept in captivity.

Twitter users were visibly elated at the ouster of Vijaya Gadde, who had earlier courted controversy for censoring the infamous ‘Hunter Biden story’ and terminating the Twitter account of US President Donald Trump.

“Unemployed”, wrote one user after superimposing her image on a fresh package of an adult constume.

“Bye Vijaya Gadde,” another user shared a digitally altered video of Elon Musk dumping the former Twitter Legal Head into the sea.

In April, it was reported that Gadde was all set to lose her $17 million-a-year job as Musk expressed no confidence in the top management of Twitter. At that time, Musk took potshots at her for censoring the critical ‘Hunter Biden story.’

She had also courted controversy in 2018 for standing with a ‘Smash Brahmanical Patriarchy’ banner along with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The news of Twitter’s acquisition and the change in top management of the company certainly delighted Musk’s supporters and free speech advocates.

Parag Agrawal likely to receive $42 million after departure from Twitter

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Parag Agrawal likely to receive $42 million after departure from Twitter

On Friday 28th October 2022, Elon Musk took over Twitter as he completed his $44 billion deal. Elon Musk fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal with immediate effect. After exiting Twitter, Parag Agrawal is expected to receive $42 million.

According to reports, 100% of Agrawal’s unvested equity awards will vest. So, the top executive won’t be departing without any rewards. In fact, he will get a sum of approximately $42 million.

According to research firm Equilar, The estimate accounts for the accelerated vesting of all stock awards as well as a year’s worth of base pay for Parag Agrawal. When Agrawal was the chief technology officer, his total salary was $30.4 million. Agrawal was reportedly paid $1 million a year as the CEO.

After co-founder Jack Dorsey abruptly left his position in November of last year, Parag Agrawal assumed the role of CEO. The advent of Musk as a major stakeholder and an increasingly vocal critic of the company’s incumbent leadership quickly ended Agrawal’s tenure as CEO.

Parag Agrawal was unlikely to keep his job after Musk’s involvement. Musk stated that he “does not have confidence in management” in one of his filings regarding the deal.

Elon Musk acquired control of Twitter on Friday after a protracted legal spat with the social media site. Musk had cancelled the acquisition agreement in July, alleging Twitter had misled him about the number of bot accounts on its network.

On October 17, Musk and Twitter were scheduled to square off in Delaware’s Court of Chancery; Twitter planned to ask the judge to order Musk to finalize the $44 billion deal. But earlier this month, Musk suggested moving forward with his first $44 billion offer and asking for Twitter’s lawsuit to be dropped.

One of Elon Musk’s first actions was to remove the senior management. CEO Parag Agrawal, who was chosen for the position by company co-founder Jack Dorsey in November of last year, is among those exiting. Along with the CEO of Indian descent, Mr Musk also let go of two other senior executives and Twitter’s head of legal, policy, and trust, Vijaya Gadde.

‘Don’t make changes in Muslim Personal Law, Sharia has to be obeyed’: General secretary of Muslim League’s women’s wing

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‘Don’t make changes in Muslim Personal Law, Sharia has to be obeyed’: General secretary of Muslim League’s women’s wing

PK Noorbina Rasheed, national general secretary of the Indian Union Women’s League (IUWL), has requested that no alterations be done to Muslim personal law that will be in conflict with Islamic/ Sharia Law by the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, which was formed to review personal laws in the country.

IUWL is the women’s wing of the Kerala-based Indian Union Muslim League.

The IUWL leader stated in a memorandum to Deputy Secretary Goutam Kumar attached to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat that Muslim personal law was promulgated and maintained to allow Muslims to follow the teachings of the Quran. Personal laws based on religion, faith, and belief were enacted in accordance with the Indian Constitution for a specific class or group of people, she added.

Everyone in India belongs to different castes and religions, each with its own faiths and belief systems based on religious scriptures. According to Noorbina Rasheed, Muslims’ faiths and belief systems are based on the Quran and Sunnah.

The subject ‘Review of Personal Laws’ has been identified for detailed examination by the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law, and Justice, chaired by Sushil Kumar Modi. The Committee has invited memoranda having thoughts and suggestions from relevant parties interested in the subject in order to have a broader consultation. Following an examination, the Committee will recommend to the government various statutory and non-statutory reforms in personal and family laws that are followed by the country’s various religious and social groups. 

“The Committee is deliberating on various issues pertaining to personal laws in India and inter alia exploring the possibility of codifying different personal laws with a view to responding to the demands of social change and stamping out discriminatory practices that have crept into these laws,” the press release issued by the committee reads.

Pakistan: Imran Khan announces Haqeeqi Azadi March to Islamabad after being disqualified by Election Commission

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Pakistan: Imran Khan announces Haqeeqi Azadi March to Islamabad after being disqualified by Election Commission

On 28th October 2022, Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan commenced his Azadi March from Lahore to Islamabad. In a video message posted on Twitter before the march, the former cricketer who is now a politician explained that the goal of the rally was to prevent “foreign puppets” from running Pakistan, not to advance “personal or political” goals.

Imran Khan said, “My fellow Pakistanis, tomorrow at 11 am, I am starting my ‘Haqeeqi Azadi March’ from Liberty Square. I want all of you to participate in the same. This march is not meant for any political purpose or personal agenda, or to topple any government for making up a new. This march is meant to bring real freedom to the country. Since when Pakistan has formed when we got independence from British rule, this equally big fight is going on to get real freedom.”

Imran Khan further said, “What is the motive behind this march? The decision taken about the country should be made within the country. No puppet of any foreign powers should make the decisions for our country. The second thing is that justice should prevail. Everyone should be equal before the law. Justice should be done in order to make people happy and free. Because happiness follows justice. A small group of people is always sitting in power. They loot every time and give clean chit to themselves. This freedom march is meant to get freedom from their clutches.”

Imran Khan added, “Insha Allah, tomorrow at 11 am, we will take the march. This march will not stop until we bring real freedom to this country. And it will happen at a time when people will decide through a clean and unbiased election who should rule this country. It should not happen that someone hatches a conspiracy with the help of foreign powers and topple the government and place the puppets to rule. We want a country Qaid-e-Azam fought for. We want a country envisioned by Allama Iqbal. Pakistan Zindabad.”

The PTI leader’s long-standing demand that the current government call early elections is considered the impetus behind the march. The 70-year-old leader is leading this rally for the second time. A similar march that Khan had organized earlier in May ended violently and in bloodshed after police and PTI protesters battled in numerous places.

The PTI leader’s long-standing demand that the current government call early elections is considered the impetus behind the march. The 70-year-old leader is leading this rally for the second time. A similar march that Khan had organized earlier in May ended violently and in bloodshed after police and PTI protesters battled in numerous places.

Despite calls for non-violence and peace by PTI officials, including Khan, during the Haqeeqi Azadi march, Islamabad police claimed it is fully prepared to make sure that no adverse incident happens. In order to accomplish this, more than 13,000 officers have been stationed in the capital of Pakistan.

On November 4, the march will arrive in Islamabad after travelling through the cities of Kamonki, Gujranwala, Daska, Sumbrial, Lala Musa, Khariyan, Gujjar Khan, and Rawalpindi. As soon as the march reaches Islamabad, a sit-in under Imran Khan’s direction is anticipated.

Furnish proof that names of Muslim and Yadav voters deleted from the electoral roll: EC issues notice to Akhilesh Yadav

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Furnish proof that names of Muslim and Yadav voters deleted from the electoral roll: EC issues notice to Akhilesh Yadav

Nearly a month after Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav accused the Election Commission of manipulating the Uttar Pradesh election, the poll body on Thursday (October 27), issued a notice asking him to “submit documentary proof” to substantiate his allegations. Yadav had claimed that the poll body deliberately deleted the names of nearly 20,000 voters from Yadav and Muslim communities ahead of the election in Uttar Pradesh earlier this year.

Since the allegations meted out by the SP chief are exceedingly serious in nature and have far-reaching ramifications for the integrity of the election process, the poll body has asked him to furnish documentary evidence to substantiate his claims.

The constitutional body has asked the SP chief to furnish the proof by November 10, 2022, so that necessary action can be taken in the matter. The poll body has also asked the SP leader to submit a report on Assembly-wise data of deletions to strengthen his claims. 

The poll panel noted that the Representation of People Act, 1950 and the Representation of People Act, 1951 envisage various provisions aimed at ensuring the purity of electoral registration, revision and final roll, as well as provisions for penalties and criminal liabilities for undue interference, including false declaration knowingly and promoting enmity between classes.

Akhilesh Yadav made the sensational claim last month at the Samajwadi Party’s national convention on September 29 to explain the party’s defeat in the 2022 elections. The SP supremo had alleged that the Election Commission deliberately deleted the names of 20,000 voters from the Yadav and Muslim communities from almost all 403 assembly constituencies at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Uttar Pradesh elections in February-March this year.

The party or its leader Akhilesh Yadav, however, did not lodge any formal complaint with the Election Commission over the allegations.

It may be recalled that Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, who had lost heavily to the BJP in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, winning just 47 seats to its rival’s 312, had started crying foul as soon as the exit polls projected a BJP clean sweep of the UP assembly polls.

Akhilesh Yadav and other opposition parties party leaders raise EVM bogey as exit polls suggest BJP clean sweeping UP assembly polls

On March 9, as soon as the exit polls had shown Bharatiya Janata Party winning the UP elections comfortably, the leaders of the opposition parties, including Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav began raising their usual EVM bogey to hide their inability to win elections.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav had said, “Varanasi DM is transporting EVMs without giving any information to local candidates. EC should look into it. We need to be alert if EVMs are being transported this way. This is theft. We need to save our votes. We may go to court against it but before that, I want to appeal to people to save the democracy.”

Yadav further stated that when the Samajwadi Party candidate was leading, the counting of votes was stopped or slowed in numerous places across the state, and results in favour of the BJP candidate were declared each time. This, he alleged, was done on the direct order of senior officials in the office of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Wire, after having committed fraud that was used to defame India, issues a laughable statement that calls out their bluff

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The Wire, after having committed fraud that was used to defame India, issues a laughable statement that calls out their bluff

Hours after BJP IT Cell Head Amit Malviya announced that he would file civil and criminal proceedings against ‘The Wire’, the leftist publication desperately tried to distance itself from its fake Meta stories.

In an article titled ‘BJP’s Amit Malviya to Sue The Wire Over Meta Stories’, The Wire shamelessly gave itself a clean chit and shrewdly passed on the blame to its ‘lead investigator’, Devesh Kumar.

“On October 10, The Wire had published the first of four articles (all now retracted) claiming that Meta, the parent company of Instagram, had granted Malviya the ability to take down posts he objected to by not subjecting complaints he filed to review by the company,” it initially conceded making unsolicited defamatory remarks against the BJP IT Cell Head without evidence.

While ‘lamenting’ editorial oversight, The Wire remarked,” (We) noted that a member of its Meta investigation team had deceived the publication with inauthentic material.”

Screengrab of the report by ‘The Wire’

The leftist propaganda website then blamed the embarrassing Meta fiasco on a lack of technological understanding and, in the process, exonerated itself for its shoddy journalistic practices and allowing its ‘confirmation bias’ against Amit Malviya and the BJP to take the leave of its good senses. It evoked journalistic practices such as reliance on source-based stories to suggest that its tranche of fake stories was nothing short of typical media investigation.

“Journalists rely on sources for stories and do their best to verify the material they receive. Technological evidence is more complicated and the usual due diligence may not always reveal the fraud perpetrated upon a publication. This is what happened to us,” The Wire absolved itself of any deliberate wrongdoing.

Although the leftist publication is not new to propagating fake stories, it claimed that the Meta fiasco was one of the rarest occasions where it had misinformed the public. And even then, The Wire managed to play the victim card and allege that it was defrauded by its lead investigator.

For over 10 months now—since the time Tek Fog stories by The Wire were first published in The Wire—Siddharth Varadarajan and at least 4 other writers at his organisation took byline for the reports. When they are finally exposed for their lies and propaganda, Varadarajan conveniently passes the buck on his lead investigator and projects himself as a victim of the deception.

While Varadarajan and The Wire would want us to believe that they are victims of the said fiascos, it is worth noting that the frauds were committed by the writers employed by the organisation, working expressly under the supervision of Varadarajan, and being endorsed by the publication. By claiming that its writers acted in an independent capacity, that they created fake photoshops and uploaded them on private blogs with The Wire’s logo, Varadarajan and company are simply trying to sidestep from their duty of owning up to their mistakes and scapegoating their employees to take the fall for the frauds committed at an organisational level.

“Whether the person who brought all the material to The Wire deceived us at anyone else’s behest or acted on his own is a matter that will be subjected to judicial process in due course,” said the leftist rag, refusing to own the responsibility of maligning Meta and Amit Malviya.

The Wire reiterated its stance of being the victim in the Meta saga despite being the purveyor of malicious, defamatory content against Amit Malviya. “The malintent to discredit The Wire is obvious,” it stated while commenting on the civil and criminal proceedings initiated against it.

The top management of ‘The Wire’ cannot wash off its hands from the guilt of misleading its readers and leading an anti-India campaign. The founding Editor Siddharth Vardarajan was the author of one of the four retracted stories about Meta.

It is interesting that The Wire is now blaming its ‘reporting team’ for the fake story even though Varadarajan was named as co-author in some of the stories. This makes the editor part of the ‘reporting team’.

And thus the attempt to pass on the blame to the accused Devesh reflects a clear lack of ethical conduct at the organisational level. No wonder, it holds true for their recent intellectually dishonest ‘apology note’.

Amit Malviya to sue ‘The Wire’ for damage to his reputation

On Thursday (October 27), Amit Malviya decided to pursue criminal and civil proceedings against the leftist propaganda outlet The Wire over their fake reporting targeting the BJP leader.

The Wire, founded by American citizen Siddarth Varadarajan, alleged that Amit Malviya was given access by Facebook’s parent company Meta to delete anti-BJP posts from Facebook and Instagram.

After the leftist rag’s claims fell flat in the face of technical scrutiny, they tried to fabricate evidence in the shape of forged emails. When those claims were revealed to be frauds, The Wire withdrew their reports.

Amit Malviya, who had been maintaining a stoic silence throughout this saga, informed on Thursday that he would pursue the case against The Wire legally. The decision was based on the recommendations of his lawyers.

After demanding Supreme Court probe over fictitious app Tek Fog, Editors Guild withdraws reference to it after The Wire retracted its stories

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After demanding Supreme Court probe over fictitious app Tek Fog, Editors Guild withdraws reference to it after The Wire retracted its stories

Days after The Wire retracted its stories on Meta and Tek Fog after they were found to be fake allegations against BJP based on fabricated evidence, the Editors Guild of India has issued a statement. While the Guild is quick in targeting right-wing media houses and remains silent on crimes committed by left-wing media, in a rare occasion, they said that they are withdrawing references to the fictious Tek Fog story by The Wire made in a statement issued in January 2022.

The Editors Guild also urged newsrooms to resist the temptation of moving fast on sensitive stories, circumventing due journalistic norms. The Guild said that its January statement had mentioned the Tek Fog story of Wire, along with other instances of harassment of woman journalists. But as now The Wire has decide to remove these stories as part of an internal review after the veracity of the reports were questioned, the Guild is also withdrawing references to these reports by The Wire.

In carefully chosen words that avoided criticising The Wire for publishing completely fake stories by fabricating evidence, the Guild said that it is disturbed by the turn of events. “The Guild is conscious of and emphasizes the need for extra care in investigative journalism, and urges newsrooms to resist the temptation of moving fast on sensitive stories, circumventing due journalistic norms and checks,” the statement added.

The Editors Guild however added that online trolling of women journalists remains an important issue, and better safeguards need to be put in place, including a strong and effective complaints and redressal system for victims. It is notable that in the fake Tek Fog story, The Wire had claimed that BJP was using a highly sophisticated automated app to direct hatred towards female journalists.

The Wire had claimed that BJP is able to manipulate major social media platforms using the so-called Tek Fog app bypassing all safety features available in the platforms. They claimed that with the tap of just one button on the app, BJP’s IT cell was able to ‘hijack’ the Twitter trends, allowed managing multiple WhatsApp accounts, create and delete Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts, and direct online harassment of anti-BJP journalists.

The entire Tek Fog story was based on only screenshots, without any other evidence, including the claim of targeting ‘anti-BJP’ women journalists. In the report, The Wire had claimed that they had monitored Twitter accounts of 280 woman journalists including replies to them, and had concluded that 18% of the replies came from accounts managed by Tek Fog, with many abusive comments.  

However, the report didn’t include any other number on the issue, like how many accounts were managed by the ‘app’. Out of the so-called 280 accounts, they had randomly selected 32 accounts, and derived that they believed that 102,000 accounts were managed by Tek Fog. They didn’t have any evidence for this, they just randomly selected some numbers and arrived at this number with some calculations.

Editor Siddharth Varadarajan had posted a chart showing the extent of abusive messages sent to woman journalists using Tek Fog, without any evidence.

The claims made by The Wire in the Tek Fog story and later in the Meta story were ridiculous and impossible that even die-hard Modi haters refused to believe them, questioned the claims, and exposed in detail how the claims can’t be true. There was overwhelming evidence back in January itself that the Tek Fog story is fake, but The Editors Guild, which is now advising media houses not to hurry with reports, had demanded Supreme Court probe into the allegations.

In a statement issued on January 11, the Guild had demanded that as influential people from the ruling party are involved with the Tek Fog app which is being used to harass woman journalists, Supreme Court should take cognisance of the matter and order a probe into it. The Editors Guild had said that the purpose of sending the hateful messages to female journalists using the app was to instil fear in them and to prevent them from expressing themselves freely and go about their jobs.

In the statement issued to condemn online harassment of women journalists, the Editors Guild mentioned two incidents, the Tek Fog story, and the claim that people were conducting ‘online auction’ of Muslim women using two open-source apps available on GitHub platform. Just like Tek Fog, the claims about these apps, Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai, were completely false and baseless, and they were not ‘auctioning’ Muslim women as claimed by left-liberals and Editors Guild.

While the apps were not in good taste, all they did was take display pictures of women from social media accounts and add some text to them. There was no ‘auction’, one can’t auction people just by using their publicly available images.

Therefore, both the ‘instances’ based on which The Editors Guild of India had issued the statement on online harassment of female journalists were fake.

Former Amnesty India chief and Modi hater Aakar Patel runs away from court battle over fear of facing heavy fines

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Former Amnesty India chief and Modi hater Aakar Patel runs away from court battle over fear of facing heavy fines

Former chief of Amnesty India Aakar Patel withdrew Thursday his interlocutory application (IA) from the Karnataka High Court in the ongoing case filed by Twitter challenging orders issued by the Center for blocking Twitter accounts.

The withdrawal came after Justice Krishna S Dixit hinted that the court will impose heavy penalties—to the tune of Rs 25 lakhs—for wasting its time and to deter such litigants from moving courts to promote somebody else’s cause.

“If your submission is accepted then there could be lakhs of persons whose accounts are blocked. If they are permitted, the Court will be full,” the Court said before Patel withdrew his application.

Justice Dixit adjourned the hearing to November 16 after highlighting that a similar IA filed by Supreme Court advocate Sanjay Hegde was rejected by the court.

Patel, seeking for impleadment as an intervenor, had claimed that he had suffered due to the “unconstitutional blocking orders” that affected his Twitter account. He averred that in June 2020, it appeared to him that the Centre had compelled Twitter to block his account under section 69A of the IT Act.

The former Amnesty India chief, who has been a strident critic of the government and has often levelled allegations against the Centre without furnishing evidence to back it, claimed in the application that he was not heard before issuing the order and the copy of it wasn’t given to him either. 

“The respondents (central government) restricted my right to speech and carry on my profession for as yet unknown reasons. I believe that other users of Twitter and other social media platforms have faced similar concerns as me, many of whom may be affected by the impugned orders but are not represented in the present proceedings,” Patel stated in his IA.

However, Justice Dixit considered Aakar Patel’s petition as infructuous and warned him of heavy penalties should he persist with it, following which he withdrew his application.

Russia: Putin cracks down on LGBTQ propaganda, seeks to toughen 2013 law and ban the promotion of homosexuality, trans activism

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Russia: Putin cracks down on LGBTQ propaganda, seeks to toughen 2013 law and ban the promotion of homosexuality, trans activism

On Thursday, Russian legislators agreed to toughen the country’s 2013 law against ‘gay propaganda’, prohibiting all Russians from furthering or praising homosexual relationships or publicly implying that they are ‘normal’.

According to the reports, Moscow’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, unanimously approved amendments to strengthen the law against ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’, making such propaganda illegal among Russians of all ages. The first version of the law, passed in 2013, prohibited propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships among minors. However, the amendment aims at expanding the law to include those aged 18 and above.

“Our bill is not an act of censorship. We are only saying that propaganda, that is, positive promotion, praise, saying that this is normal, and maybe even better than traditional relations, should be banned,” said the head of the State Duma’s Information Policy Committee, Alexander Khinshtein during the parliament session. However, the proposed change has to be approved by Russia’s upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, and signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin, to take effect. 

The bill makes ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships’ a crime punishable by a fine of up to 400,000 rubles ($6,500) for individuals and up to 5 million rubles ($81,400) for legal entities. According to the reports, foreigners who violate the law could face up to 15 days in jail or deportation. On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin happened to slam Western culture. “The West can do whatever they want with gay parades but shouldn’t dictate the same rules for Russia”, he said.

Earlier in the year 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia’s ‘gay propaganda law’ is discriminatory, promotes homophobia and violates the European Convention on Human Rights. “The law serves no legitimate public interest”, the Court had said. It had further rejected suggestions that public debate on LGBT matters could persuade children to become homosexual, or that it threatened public morals.

“Above all, by adopting such laws the court found that the authorities had reinforced stigma and prejudice and encouraged homophobia, which was incompatible with the values of equality, pluralism and tolerance of a democratic society”, the court document read further.

Reportedly, the newly introduced provisions are aimed at prohibiting ‘gay propaganda’ for all Russians, not just minors, in advertisements, the internet, media, literature and also in cinema. The amendments also seek to prohibit the ‘denial of family values’ and propaganda that can ’cause minors to desire to change their sex’. 

Canada: Indians holding Tricolour stand against Khalistan supporters in Mississauga, raise ‘Khalistan Murdabad’ slogans

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Canada: Indians holding Tricolour stand against Khalistan supporters in Mississauga, raise ‘Khalistan Murdabad’ slogans

On Monday evening, two groups clashed in Mississauga city, Canada, during the Diwali celebration. A video of the fight began circulating on social media, in which a group of Khalistan supporters was seen clashing with Indians. Hundreds of people engaged in a face-off and sloganeering. According to the Mississauga-based online news outlet Insauga, the fight occurred in the Malton area. 

The video shows police officers attempting to keep crowds apart during a Diwali celebration. The group of so-called Khalistan referendum supporters held banners and raised slogans like ‘Raj Karega Khalsa’ and the other group of Indians raised ‘Khalistan Murdabad’ slogans.

On Monday night, Peel Regional Police received reports of a fight near Goreway and Etude drives. According to police, they received reports of hundreds of people fighting in a nearby parking lot.

Informing about the same, the Peel Regional Police tweeted, ”FIGHT – Goreway Dr / Etude Dr #Mississauga – #PRP responded to reports of 400-500 people fighting in a parking lot – #PRP located one person with injuries – Male being assessed by @Peel_Paramedics- #PRP remaining in the area as things have calmed down – C/R 9:41 pm – 22-0357908.”

According to the local media reports, fireworks were burnt in the Westwood Mall’s parking lot. However, the police were not sure if this led to the escalation. No arrests have been made so far.

The altercation between the two groups occurred amid growing concern in Canada about the rise of Khalistani separatist activities.  India recently asked the Canadian government to stop the November 6 ‘Khalistan Referendum’ announced by anti-India elements in Ontario. India has stated unequivocally that it will continue to raise these concerns in New Delhi and Ottawa.

Notably, the Narendra Modi government in India recently issued a demarche to the Justin Trudeau-led Canadian government, urging it to halt the purported Khalistan referendum scheduled for November 6 in Ontario by a banned organization because it would violate India’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. A senior official from the Ministry of External Affairs delivered the demarche to a senior official of the Canadian High Commission.

On September 19, a purported ‘referendum’ on Khalistan was held in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It was organized by the pro-Khalistani outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ). SFJ claimed that over 100,000 Canadian Sikhs attended the “referendum.”

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