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Another Year of Repression in India
The Indian government’s attempts to restrict the protesting farmers’ dissent went hand in hand with its continuing efforts throughout the year to clamp down on those who opposed changes to the citizenship law and demanded rights in Jammu and Kashmir. In February, scores of people were killed in deadly religious riots in Delhi, when, in reaction to protests against the citizenship law, Hindu mobs attacked Muslim groups, fuelled ( https://monitor.civicus.org/updates/2020/02/28/civil-society-calls-authorities-prevent-violence-delhi-and-address-police-failure-protec/ ) by hate speech by ruling-party Hindu nationalist politicians, and with the active assistance of the police (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53891354) ...The year also saw numerous arrests of journalists who criticised the government’s pandemic response, while farmers’ rights activists were arrested ( https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/31/india-arrests-50-journalists-in-clampdown-on-critics-of-covid-19-response ) for reporting corruption in the distribution of emergency food supplies.
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