Tag: Hate speech

Hindu religious leader held for insulting Gandhi in India

NEW DELHI — Indian police on Thursday arrested a Hindu religious leader for allegedly making a derogatory speech against India’s independence leader Mohandas Gandhi and praising his assassin. Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by a Hindu extremist during a prayer meeting in the Indian capital in 1948, because […]

Exclusive: Facebook to give data on hate speech suspects to French courts – minister

PARIS – Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges, France’s minister for digital affairs Cedric O said on Tuesday, adding the deal was a world first. The move by the world’s biggest social media […]

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