{"id":7762,"date":"2025-05-19T03:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2025-05-19T03:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:01:18","slug":"india-arrests-muslim-prof-for-online-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7762","title":{"rendered":"India arrests Muslim Prof for online post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An Indian academic has been arrested over a social media post that criticised media briefings on a recent military operation against Pakistan, drawing condemnation from civil society and free speech advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a political science professor at Ashoka University, was detained in New Delhi on Sunday after a complaint filed by a youth leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Mahmudabad was arrested under laws related to promoting enmity, inciting rebellion, and offending religious sentiments. The charges stem from a Facebook post in which he criticised the use of military optics and raised concerns over communal violence and the treatment of minorities in India.<\/p>\n<p>The post, published on 8 May, referred to media briefings led by Colonel Sofiya Qureishi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh on Operation Sindoor \u2014 India&#8217;s military action against Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, launched on 6 May.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian academic has been arrested over a social media post that criticised media briefings on a recent military operation against Pakistan, drawing condemnation from civil society and free speech advocates. Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a political science professor at Ashoka University, was detained in New Delhi on Sunday after a complaint filed by a youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}