Social media trend report

Netizens talk... Tweeps from India reacted after violence broke out on May 2, at India’s Aligarh Muslim University, over Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s portrait. Conservation International, an American non-profit environmental organisation released a virtual reali

@timesn0w:

An armed Hindutva mob under police protection entered Aligarh Muslim University and attacked students after the management and student union refused to remove a century-old portrait of Jinnah.

@khaans:

Mohammad Ali Jinnah with the students of Aligarh Muslim University, 1941. He was awarded an Honorary Degree and it is nothing to be ashamed of...

@cjwerleman:

The scale and frequency of Hindu extremist violence against Muslims in India is not only rapidly increasing alarming but also being egged on by the current government.

@r.e.s.c.u.e:

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@United Nations:

”A free press is essential for peace, justice and human rights for all. On World Press Freedom Day 2018, I call on governments to strengthen press freedom, and to protect journalists. Promoting a free press is standing up for our right to truth.” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday’s World Press Freedom Day.

@Sly Cruise:

Freedom of the media goes hand in hand with freedom of expression; to seek, receive and impart information or ideas. Our work therefore is to report on issues in the society, especially those hidden from the people. Any citizen should, I believe,have a right to information.

Happy World Press Freedom Day.