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Critics of India’s Modi Government Face Sedition Charges

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Critics of India’s Modi Government Face Sedition Charges

Freedom of political expression remains under siege in Modi’s India.

Critics of India’s Modi Government Face Sedition Charges
Credit: AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi

Sharjeel Imam was a little-known research scholar and a student activist until Indian police launched a manhunt across five states to nab him for a protest speech he gave calling for a month-long road blockade in the county’s northeast.

“Create debris on the railway tracks and roads,” Imam told the crowd, exhorting them to cut off the northeastern state of Assam from the rest of the country.

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