Mohammad Zubair and Prateek to get Nobel Peace Prize? Join the race of contenders

Fact-checkers Mohammad Zubair and Prateek Sinha are among the contenders to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. This claim has been made in the report of Time. The names of Zubair and Prateek are leading among the contenders in the Reuters poll. This year’s Nobel Prize will be presented in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Friday.

Mohammad Zubair and Prateek Sinha run a website called Alt News, which fact-checks the alleged fake news being spread on social media. According to Time magazine, the co-founders of fact check website Altnews, Prateek and Zubair are among the contenders to win the prize based on the nominations, which were made public through Norwegian parliamentarians. The case of Zubair’s arrest was shadowed all over the world, which was opposed by many organizations.

343 candidates in race for peace prize
There are about 343 candidates in the race for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, of whom 251 are individuals and 92 are from organizations. However, the Nobel Committee does not announce the names of the nominated people. Also this information is not given to the media and candidates also. Belarus’s opposition leader Svyatlana Sichanovskaya, broadcaster David Attenborough, climate activist Greta Thunberg, Pope Francis, Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe and Myanmar’s national unity government are among those nominated by Norwegian lawmakers in a Reuters poll.

Delhi Police had arrested Zubair
It is to be known that in the month of June this year, Mohammad Zubair was arrested by Delhi Police for a tweet made in the year 2018. The Delhi Police had accused him of promoting enmity between different groups on the basis of religion and deliberately acting to hurt religious sentiments. An FIR was lodged in this case by a social media user. After spending almost a month in jail after his arrest, Zubair got bail from the Supreme Court.