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Sedition in India: Colonial Legacy, Misuse and Effect on Free Speech


Sedition in India: Colonial Legacy, Misuse and Effect on Free Speech
Since its inception, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, which punishes sedition, has been a tool in the hands of the state to curb criticism and dissent. It has been used by the colonial British government as well as by successive governments of independent India against political dissidents.
Six senior journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Anant Nath, Paresh Nath, Zafar Agha, and Vinod Jose and Shashi Tharoor, member of Parliament from the Congress, had been booked for “posting tweets and deliberately circulating fake news” about the death of a farmer during the farmers protests in Delhi on 26 January 2021.  ....

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India wields colonial-era sedition law to detain farm protesters


India wields colonial-era sedition law to detain farm protesters
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Farmers and agricultural workers attend a rally against farm laws in Barnala, in India s northern state of Punjab, on Sunday. | REUTERS
Bloomberg
Feb 22, 2021
In its struggle to quell unrelenting farmer protests, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is using a colonial-era sedition law that has been used to lock up dissidents often without bail while they await trial sometimes for years.
Delhi police this month arrested Disha Ravi, a 22-year-old environmental campaigner, at her home in the southern city of Bangalore for editing and sharing a “toolkit” tweeted by teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in support of the farmers. Police said the document aimed to “spread disaffection against the Indi ....

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