Press Statements

• Civil society protests BJP's Minister's calls to Kill Muslims of India

  Mar 02, 2016

  New Delhi (1 March 2016): Civil society organizations sat in spontaneous demonstration against the statement of Ram Shankar Katheria made on Sunday February 28 in Agra that war would have to be waged against Minorities to avenge the killing of ...

• American University of Beirut in Solidarity with Jawaharlal Nehru University

  Feb 25, 2016

  Beirut, Lebanon (February 23, 2016): Over 130 faculty, students, staff, and affiliates of the American University of Beirut (AUB) join thousands of academics and concerned individuals around the world who have already signed solidarity statemen...

• Israeli expert on Iran to lecture at Govt sponsored course on Religious Fundamentalism in Jamia

  Feb 06, 2016

  Jamia Millia Islamia to conduct MHRD-GIAN sponsored One-Week Course on 'Religious Fundamentalism in Global Perspective'

• Jamia Millia Islamia to teach Quranic Arabic to public on weekends

  Jan 22, 2016

  New Delhi (January 21, 2016): The Department of Arabic, Jamia Millia Islamia, under Community Outreach Programme, is going to launch ‘Learn Quranic Arabic’ Programme from January 23, 2016.   Those desirous to ...

• Civil Liberties pays its tribute to Maulana Abdul Raheem Qureshi

  Jan 16, 2016

  Hyderabad (15 January 2016): Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee expresses its grief and sorrow on the demise of Maulana Abdul Raheem Qureshi. He was the president of Tameer-e-Millat and secretary of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB...

• Muslim Mushawarat elects new President and Central Working Committee

  Jan 02, 2016

  Mr. Navaid Hamid has been elected as the President of the AIMMM for a term of two year till 31 December 2017. Out of 147 votes polled by 155 eligible voters, he scored 52 votes against Mr. Manzoor Ahmed IPS (Retd.) and Mr. Mohammad Adeeb who ha...

• Human rights defenders assaulted and severely beaten up in Karimganj, Assam

  Dec 19, 2015

  Guwahati (18 December 2015): Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) has today filed a complaint and appeal for urgent actions to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding a case of assault and intimidation of two human righ...

• ISIS does not exist in India: Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat

  Dec 08, 2015

  No proof of ISIS is making inroads into the Indian Muslim community. AIMMM expressed its anguish over the floods in Tamil Nadu, condemned the vicious statements about Tipu Sultan. Condemned the ongoing cases of kidnappings and conversion to Hindui...

• Massive 'Modi Not Welcome' Projection Appears on British Parliament Building

  Nov 09, 2015

  London (9 November 2015): At 9.00pm last night a massive projection of Narendra Modi holding a sword in one hand and a shield with the Oum symbol with a swastika superimposed appeared on the Houses of Parliament next to the iconic Big Ben. Abov...

• Bihar defeats politics of hatred and intolerance: Popular Front

  Nov 09, 2015

  New Delhi (08-11-2015): Popular Front of India Chairman KM Shareef appreciated the people of Bihar for defeating communal fascist forces in the state. The mandate people of Bihar has conferred upon the Grand alliance is a testimony that peo...

• ‘Reclaim Diwali’ Festival in London, Burn Demons of Hindutva Fascism, #ModiNotWelcome

  Nov 08, 2015

  LONDON (7 November 2015): At a packed hall in south London, some 200 people attended South Asia Solidarity Group's cultural event,  Reclaim Diwali, which is part of the #ModiNotWelcome protests. The event, 'a secular celeb...

• Imams' council slams Sangh Parivar for anti-Tipu campaign

  Nov 07, 2015

  Gulbarga, November 6, 2015: The All India Imams’ Council has condemned the Vishva Hindu Parishad and other Sangh Parivar organisations for allegedly spreading falsehood and indulging in a misleading campaign about Tipu Sultan and portrayi...

• Indian Christians Strongly Condemn Growing Intolerance in the Country

  Nov 03, 2015

  Invite others too to stand up at this time and express concern and do whatever is needed to uphold inclusive development, peace, unity, integrity, sovereignty and harmony in our Country India.

• UK-based South Asia Solidarity Group Deplores Burning Alive of Dalit Children in India

  Oct 25, 2015

  One of Britain’s key activist organisations, South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG), has applauded the courage of the more than 40 writers, to date, who have returned literary awards from India's prestigious Sahitya Academy in protest aga...

• Wave of violence unacceptable: Indian Muslim apex body

  Oct 22, 2015

  Riots, lynching, attacks on churches, mosques and houses of Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis and Christians are a norm now. Modi government must either govern according to the Constitution and laws of the land or pack its bags.

• Modi's upcoming U.K. visit: Women's Organisations, Academics write to him about gender violence

  Oct 17, 2015

  15 October 2015: In the run up to Narendra Modi's visit to the UK, all the major South Asian, Black and minority ethnic women's organisations involved in combatting violence against women, together with more than 20 prominent South Asia...

• J&K Assembly speaker, a diehard RSS man, failed by allowing vandalism

  Oct 08, 2015

  Srinagar (8 October 2015): Prof. Saifuddin Soz, Former Union Minister & Patron J&K Peoples’ Empowerment Mission, has issued the following statement to the press: “We must salute these illustrious sons and daughters of In...

• U.P Govt must go beyond arrests to tackle religious intolerance: Amnesty

  Oct 08, 2015

  New Delhi (8 October 2015): The Uttar Pradesh government must do more to protect the rights of religious minorities in the state, Amnesty International India said today. On 28 September, Mohammed Akhlaq, a 50-year-old Muslim man in Da...

• #Dadri: Secularism, Democracy and entire Social fabric of this nation is on stake!

  Oct 08, 2015

  Hyderabad (7 October 2015): Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee expresses its anguish over the wild Hindutva mob attack incident on Mohammed Akhlaq’s house and his cold blooded murder in subsequent lynching. His son Danish is still strug...

• Mushawarat Working Committee deliberates on national and international issues

  Oct 06, 2015

  Citizenship to non-Muslims of Pakistan and Bangladesh; ISIS; IM; Bihar elections, meat ban, freedom; Punishment to the killers of Akhlaq; Murders in the Kashmir valley; Attacks on Dalits and Adivasis; Shoulder2Shoulder