Raqib Hameed Naik

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Raqib Hameed Naik
Born
Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India
OccupationJournalist
Organisation Hindutva Watch [1]
AwardsAminah Assilmi Award in Media Excellence - 2021. [2]
Website raqibnaik.com

Raqib Hameed Naik (born 1995) is a Kashmiri journalist who founded the Hindutva Watch, a research project that documents hate crimes and hate speeches against religious minorities in India, and India Hate Lab, which studies hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories targeting religious minorities. [3] . He is also the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. [4]

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Naik is the Pulitzer Center grantee. [5]

Early life and education

Raqib was born to Kashmiri parents in Jammu and Kashmir. He did his early schooling Sri Ranbir Higher Secondary School, Jammu. He moved to Srinagar to complete his undergraduate studies at Amar Singh College. He then attended Jamia Millia Islamia.[ citation needed ] In 2018, he received a scholarship to study International Multimedia Journalism at the University of Bolton. [6]

Career

Raqib started his career as a staff reporter with Twocircles.net, [7] where he stayed until 2017. In his early career, he was based in Kashmir. Later he reported from different Indian states. He was guest editor at Beyond Headlines. [8] In 2018, he joined The Globe Post as its Indian correspondent. [9]

X Censorship Case

In January 2024, the Indian government geo-blocked the X (formerly Twitter) handle of Hindutva Watch, followed by the blocking of its website along with India Hate Lab. The government issued blocking notices under Section 69A of the controversial Information Technology Act. [10]

In April 2024, Naik petitioned the Delhi High Court to challenge the illegal, arbitrary, and disproportionate blocking of Hindutva Watch’s X account and both websites. The petition named the Union of India and X Corp, the company owned by Elon Musk that manages X. [11]

In September 2024, X Corp, for the first time in India, filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court in support of Naik, calling the Indian government’s blocking order a “disproportionate and unreasonable restriction.” [12]

Awards

Raqib won the Aminah Assilmi Award in Media Excellence in 2021 [2] and has been shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation Award. [13]

References

  1. ↑ Purohit, Kunal (12 August 2023). "India's Hindu-Muslim hate crimes are being tracked, by self-exiles Modi supporters wants silenced". South China Morning Post . Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Doda-born journalist receives Aminah Assilmi Media Excellence Award in the United States". The Chenab Times. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Raqib Hameed Naik on Oslo Freedom Forum". Oslo Freedom Forum. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Far-right Hindus use Bangladesh as pretence to target India's weary Muslims". TRT World. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Raqib Hameed Naik on Pulitzer Center". Pulitzer Center . Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "Journalist from Doda selected by Bolton University UK". Kashmiri Observer.
  7. ↑ "The worrying silence of Greater Kashmir and the Editors' body on the arrest of a Kashmiri photojournalist". TwoCircles.net. 10 September 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Contributors". BeyondHeadlines. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Our Team". The Globe Post . Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  10. ↑ "Hate crime tracker Hindutva Watch blocked in India ahead of national vote". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  11. ↑ "Plea in Delhi High Court challenges blocking of Hindutva Watch, India Hate Lab websites in India". Bar & Bench. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  12. ↑ "In HC, X slams govt order blocking Hindutva Watch; IT Act doesn't permit curbs on future content". The Print. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "All fired up: The journalists addressing the climate emergency". Thomson Foundation . 8 March 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
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