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Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal

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Re: Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal

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Post by xrisk »

sbmthakur wrote: post #34
apexkid wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is all motivated reporting. India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job. If any charges are put incorrectly then courts will grant relief. India is democratic country.

According to AlJazeera, Afzal Guru is just a "Kashmiri separatist". I guess they missed the part where he was convicted for attacking the Indian parliament [1]. Interesting that Amnesty International questioned the way he was tried and punished[2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Indian_Parliament_attack 2. https://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/india-ne...

Also interesting that they did not find a shred of evidence in that case. In fact the order mentioned that he was convicted to placate the “conscience of the nation”.

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Post by deskamess »

apexkid wrote: post #28
apexkid wrote: post #24

Indians are very pleased at this decision. Amnesty has been a major organization to hold biased views of human rights of terrorist in Kashmir without accounting for the loss of citizens life that are damaged due to terrorism. Their agenda has always been motivated while operating in India. A diverse and large country like India doesn't need such an organization preaching whats right. India is largest democracy on fac…

Amnesty's resources are better spent in operating in those countries where there is no democracy such as middle east, africa, china, etc. Good they got an exit from India where they are useless :)

> in those countries where there is no democracy such as middle east, africa, china, etc

Only one of those is a country. Do you actually think India is better off than South Africa or Botswana (these are actual countries).

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Post by xrisk »

apexkid wrote: post #26
nabla9 wrote: post #22

Hindu nationalism is just like any nationalism. It harms liberties. India: Arrests of Activists Politically Motivated https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/16/india-arrests-activists-... Under Modi, India's Press Not Free Anymore https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-pre... Critics of India’s Modi Government Face Sedition Charges https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/critics-of-indias-modi-gover... Is free sp…

This is all motivated reporting. India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job. If any charges are put incorrectly then courts will grant relief. India is democratic country.

Ah yes the very same independent judicial system whose last Chief Justice is now a member of parliament. yes sir, very independent indeed.

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Post by Karupan »

vestingz wrote: post #39
apexkid wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is all motivated reporting. India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job. If any charges are put incorrectly then courts will grant relief. India is democratic country.

If ever, courts will act a couple of years after the case. The judicial system is close to non-functional due to underfunding and mismanagement and lately due to political influence by the current fascist regime. The global public is slowly getting aware of all the human rights abuses happening in the country - good. India will only be a true democracy when Hinduism, which manifests in the caste system and brahmanic…

> India will only be a true democracy when Hinduism, which manifests in the caste system and brahmanic supremacy, will be annihilated.

I have no words.

Re: Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal

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Post by johnnydoe9 »

krtkush wrote: post #20
johnnydoe9 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Toyota recently pulled out of the country due to ineffective bureaucracy and that's when they're pushing for more manufacturing. In cases like these there's no way for them to fight if they're against you.

> Toyota recently pulled out of the country That is incorrect. Toyota is halting expansion in India not pulling out.

Yeah my bad, halting expansion. Kia encountered major issues as well but continued in a different state IIRC

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Post by sidmkp96 »

HN should take down this post. The country has been heavily polarized into two sections (pro-bjp and against-bjp) with both the sections heavily incentivised by the "IT" deptt of respective political parties. Very few will talk about the actual issue and most of the comments will be rhetorical, only focusing on what they believe is right.

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Post by factorialboy »

roenxi wrote: post #7

Interesting. Does the Indian government have a legitimate complaint? There is a very wide spectrum of possibilities here. They range from the Indian government being horrible, through localised corruption, through the government having very legitimate concerns about foreign interference, through to AI India being corrupt and/or in league with western intelligence agencies.

In this particular case it is money laundering. These NGOs receive foreign funds without Govt. approvals and the state is slapping the law on them.

Re: Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal

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Post by ashleshbiradar »

this needs to be looked with the recent updates to FCRA rules, which completely cripple civil societies.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/icj-says-fcra-bill-in...

https://scroll.in/article/973909/behind-the-new-rules-for-ng...

Re: Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due to Government Reprisal

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Post by kikokikokiko »

apexkid wrote: post #26
nabla9 wrote: post #22

Hindu nationalism is just like any nationalism. It harms liberties. India: Arrests of Activists Politically Motivated https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/16/india-arrests-activists-... Under Modi, India's Press Not Free Anymore https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-pre... Critics of India’s Modi Government Face Sedition Charges https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/critics-of-indias-modi-gover... Is free sp…

This is all motivated reporting. India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job. If any charges are put incorrectly then courts will grant relief. India is democratic country.

After seeing what this organization did when Bolsonaro got elected here in Brazil, unfortunately I can not say I believe anything that comes out of it. It's a politically biased organization, therefore you always must take any stance they take with a lot of grains of salt.
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