Mohammed Zubair is an Indian journalist and the co-founder of Alt News, an Indian non-profit fact-checking website. He made headlines on June 27, 2022, when he was arrested by the Delhi Police for his tweets from 2018. His detention sparked worries about the state of India's press freedoms. Journalist bodies, human rights organizations, and the political opposition perceived the arrest as a revenge against Zubair's role in reporting on the 2022 BJP Muhammad remarks controversy and Alt News' work of fighting disinformation in the society, while noting of diminishing press freedom in India during the Premiership of Narendra Modi.