Arrest of Indian Muslim journo sparks outrage

NEW DELHI, June 28 (AP): Police in India's capital New Delhi arrested a Muslim journalist Monday evening for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in what many have slammed as the latest example of shrinking press freedoms under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
Mohammed Zubair, one of the co-founders of fact-checking website Alt News, was arrested over a tweet that police said deliberately insulted "the god of a particular religion." Senior police officer K P S Malhotra said the case was registered following a complaint from a Twitter user and Zubair was remanded in custody for one day.
The incident immediately set off a wave of outrage, with activists, journalists and opposition politicians taking to social media to decry it as harassment of the press while calling for Zubair's immediate release.
"Arresting one voice of truth will only give rise to a thousand more," wrote opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Twitter.