Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi
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#2"In the capital, Delhi, bulldozers have demolished the homes of Muslims accused of rioting."
Illegal housing was demolished without taking any religion into consideration.
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#3I admit I'm not super familiar with India's freedom of speech, is this a backslide or has it always been like this?
Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi
#4Bit of an odd article, man makes defamatory and false tweet, gets arrested for defamation, cries free speech?
Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy
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#5Bit of an odd article, man makes defamatory and false tweet, gets arrested for defamation, cries free speech? Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy
Adding to your point, people have been arrested for similarly offensive tweets in the U.K. too. Yet I have not seen much concern for free speech rights in the Grauniad. Why is India being singled out here? It looks like old colonial attitudes resurfacing again, where exotic colonial dependents are always stereotyped as "backward".
Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi
#6Boris Johnson arrived in India. Rabble-rousers know that the world's media attention will follow; and they use this opportunity to garner some of the spotlight. It's just a shameless ploy to get their names out.
Such is democracy, I guess.
And the Guardian doesn't help by adding flame bait such as this:
"In the capital, Delhi, bulldozers have demolished the homes of Muslims accused of rioting."
Illegal construction, encroachment on public land will sometimes get this response. Of course, due to vote bank politics, this may not always happen; but it does.
Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi
#7Bit of an odd article, man makes defamatory and false tweet, gets arrested for defamation, cries free speech? Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy
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#8I admit I'm not super familiar with India's freedom of speech, is this a backslide or has it always been like this?
If we start to get a lot of comments here, pay attention. You'll likely see confirmation of recent trends in India. I suspect we're already seeing that, even with the few comments that have been posted so far.
Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi
#9Bit of an odd article, man makes defamatory and false tweet, gets arrested for defamation, cries free speech? Making such a remark is equivalent of calling someone here a nazi etc. Hardly newsworthy
From the article:
> He was arrested on Thursday on accusations of attempting to disturb “public tranquillity and peace”, the police said.
Disturbing public tranquility and peace != defamation
Re: Indian lawmaker arrested after tweet criticising Narendra Modi
#10I admit I'm not super familiar with India's freedom of speech, is this a backslide or has it always been like this?
India never had freedom of speech. Opposition newspapers are often harassed and shut down. They have a law criminalizing offending religious feelings. This is not an exaggerated paraphrase, that’s what the law says. A scientist was convicted under this law a few years ago for demonstrating that a “weeping” statue of the Virgin Mary was not actually weeping blood. The truth was offensive, so the law applied.
EDIT: I remembered inaccurately. It was a statue of the crucified Jesus, not Mary.