Rights group Amnesty halts India operations, says facing crackdown

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Human rights group Amnesty International stopped its work in India on Tuesday saying the government had frozen its bank accounts in the latest action against it for speaking out about rights violations.

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amnesty International is seen next to director of Mujeres En Linea Luisa Kislinger, during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela February 20, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jass/File Photo

Critics also say the government is pushing a Hindu-first agenda, undermining the secular foundations of India’s democracy and raising fears among its 170 million Muslim minority.Opposition politician Shashi Tharoor said Amnesty’s exit was a blow. “For a movement that has done nothing but raise its voices against injustice, this latest attack is akin to freezing dissent,” he said.

 

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They are manipulators..

HK government stymie HR groups to operate and curtailing free Speech ......oh wait its cast infected democratic India....zip

India fascist state has no respect for human rights whatsoever

Jihadi group amnesty

Thankyou for leaving India. Amnesty International had clandestine Anti-India motives to harm it on the behest of India's enemies. Good that this menace is getting off our sacred shores.....

The entire world needs to boycott and sanction India for their crimes against humanity.

Very soon will be kicked out.

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