Screenshot on which Sinha commented





The three-day "ban" on Sinha's timeline, https://www.facebook.com/freethinker, comes a day after one of the senior-most Indian journalists, Seema Mustafa, declared in a Facebook post (11.30 am, March 24), "Facebook has blocked The Citizen's

Mustafa reported, "We are not being allowed to share the link, so please visit www.thecitizen.in for the full details on how the Hyderabad University administration cut off food, water, internet supplies; restricted entry into campus; and brought in the police who mercilessly beat up students. Please share the link to the story directly from our website." Gujarat's young human rights activist and social media campaigner Pratik Sinha has said that Facebook has "banned" him again, this time for three days. Reason, according to him, is a comment on the screentshot of a tweet by well-known Narendra Modi-supporter and commentator Minhas Merchant. Sinha's comment (March 23) had just said, “Why are Indian Muslims not giving us a chance to spit Venom like these ISIS people do? Because, basically they are Hindu. But send them to Pakistan. :P”, making him wonder what was objectionable in this.The three-day "ban" on Sinha's timeline, https://www.facebook.com/freethinker, comes a day after one of the senior-most Indian journalists, Seema Mustafa, declared in a Facebook post (11.30 am, March 24), "Facebook has blocked The Citizen's lead story on the police crackdown on Hyderabad Central University, following which PhD scholar Uday Bhanu was admitted in ICU, asking her friends and supporters to widely spread Please share the following link widely."Mustafa reported, "We are not being allowed to share the link, so please visit www.thecitizen.in for the full details on how the Hyderabad University administration cut off food, water, internet supplies; restricted entry into campus; and brought in the police who mercilessly beat up students. Please share the link to the story directly from our website."

Uday Bhanu

She said, "To fight instigated Facebook censorship please click on www.thecitizen.in. This will take you straight to the story that FB has been made to Block about the Hyderabad Central University being converted into a war zone, with students attacked, beaten, arrested, and one student admitted in ICU for trying to cook to feed the hungry students."

After waiting for almost 12 hours, the ban on Facebook page was removed, with Mustafa saying, "Thank you all for the support and for sharing the links that we had put out. We have just been told by our tech team that the post has now been restored by Facebook so clearly the loud complaints, and the fact that the news could not be suppressed, finally worked."

Referring to how he was "banned" for a day a month ago, Sinha said, he had just posted was an info-graphic "which was actually an accurate depiction of history". In a report on his site, www.truthofgujarat.com, Sinha says, "Can somebody tell me, how can the above post be against Facebook’s community standards? And if you think that was an exception, then check the next image for which I was banned by Facebook about a month ago."

The image on Sinha's Facebook timeline which led to the previous one-day ban