Featured Rights group Amnesty halts India operations, says faces harassment

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday it is stopping its work in India because the government has frozen its bank accounts in the latest action against it for speaking out about rights violations.

“The organisation has been compelled to let go of staff in India and pause all its ongoing campaign and research work,” the group said in a statement.

“This is latest in the incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations by the government of India over unfounded and motivated allegations.”

It said its bank accounts were frozen on Sept. 10. Amnesty said it had highlighted rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and riots in Delhi in recent days and the government had sought to punish it for that.

There was no immediate response from government spokesmen to requests for comment.

source: https://www.reuters.com/article/india-amnesty-idUSKBN26K0PR

 

[INS_Vikrant]

Great news

 

[masterchief_mirza]

World's biggest democracy.

 

[hussain0216]

Hindutva extremist republic

 

[INS_Vikrant]

Now plz throw out PETA, Green Peace and all other foreign NGOs aswell

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

Pakistan should kick them out as well. Channels like Dawn, Geo tv, PTM thrives on their unconditional and biased support.

 

[Gibbs]

Agree with India on this, Likes of AI and HRW are nothing but leeches surviving off third world misery with selective rights based on which sides they can sell better to the gullible westerners, As long as there's bloodshed in the less developed world these organizations thrive

 

[PakSword]

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[TheSnakeEatingMarkhur]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday it is stopping its work in India because the government has frozen its bank accounts in the latest action against it for speaking out about rights violations.

“The organisation has been compelled to let go of staff in India and pause all its ongoing campaign and research work,” the group said in a statement.

“This is latest in the incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations by the government of India over unfounded and motivated allegations.”

It said its bank accounts were frozen on Sept. 10. Amnesty said it had highlighted rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and riots in Delhi in recent days and the government had sought to punish it for that.

There was no immediate response from government spokesmen to requests for comment.

source: https://www.reuters.com/article/india-amnesty-idUSKBN26K0PR

Worlds biggest democracy? Oh I see that

 

[CIA Mole]

hindus will get away with this because whites dont take them seriously like they do with chinese

 

[Taimoor Khan]

World biggest democrazy.

 

[ARMalik]

Amnesty International to halt India operations

The human rights watchdog tells the BBC that the move comes due to reprisal from the government.

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Amnesty International says it has been forced to halt its India operations due to "reprisals" from the government.

Amnesty International says it has been forced to halt its India operations due to "reprisals" from the government.

The watchdog has also accused the government of indulging in a "witch-hunt of human rights organisations".

Amnesty says its bank accounts have been frozen and it's been forced to lay off staff in the country, and suspend all its campaign and research work.

The government is yet to respond to the allegations.

"We are facing a rather unprecedented situation in India. Amnesty International India has been facing an onslaught of attacks, bullying and harassment by the government in a very systematic manner," Rajat Khosla, the group's senior director of research, advocacy and policy, told the BBC.

"This is all down to the human rights work that we were doing and the government not wanting to answer questions we raised, whether it's in terms of our investigations into the Delhi riots, or the silencing of voices in Jammu and Kashmir."

In a report released last month, the group said police in the Indian capital, Delhi, committed human rights violations during deadly religious riots between Hindus and Muslims in February.

Rebutting the claims, the Delhi police told The Hindu newspaper that Amnesty's report was "lopsided, biased and malicious".

Earlier in August, on the first anniversary of the revocation of Indian-administered Kashmir's special status, Amnesty had called for the release of all detained political leaders, activists and journalists, and for the resumption of high-speed internet services in the region.

In 2019, the watchdog testified before the US Foreign Affairs Committee during a hearing on human rights in South Asia, where it highlighted its findings on arbitrary detentions, and the use of excessive force and torture in Kashmir.

Amnesty has also repeatedly condemned what it says is a crackdown on dissent in India.

The group, which has faced scrutiny by different government agencies over the past few years, says the freezing of its bank accounts earlier this month was the final straw.

In August 2016, a case of sedition was filed against Amnesty India over allegations that anti-India slogans were raised at one of its events. Three years later, a court ordered the charges to be dropped.

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In October 2018, the group's offices in the southern city of Bangalore were raided by the Enforcement Directorate, which investigates financial crimes. Its accounts were frozen then too, but Amnesty says it was able to access them after seeking a court's intervention.

In early 2019, the group says dozens of its small donors were sent letters by the country's income tax department. And later in the same year, Amnesty's offices were raided again, this time by the Central Bureau of Investigation, based on a case registered by India's home affairs ministry.

 

[ARMalik]

Looks like the Indian Nazis are now attacking Amnesty International ..... @Dalit @Thorough Pro @I S I @Pan-Islamic-Pakistan @PAKISTANFOREVER

 

[jamahir]

If all this happened to Amnesty in countries not that friendly to Western governments, the Western governments would have raised hue and cry and set the pattern for regime change. I now wait for the reaction of the Western governments.

 

[Zee-shaun]

And this country wants to have a permanent seat in the UNSC.