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The prosecution of Arundhati Roy is business as usual for the Modi government – and bad news for freedom of expression in India

  • Written by: Jamal Barnes, Lecturer, Criminology, Edith Cowan University
The prosecution of Arundhati Roy is business as usual for the Modi government – and bad news for freedom of expression in IndiaArundhati Roy.Vikramjit Kakati, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Earlier this month, Narendra Modi was elected India’s prime minister for the third consecutive time.

Despite being only the second Indian prime minister to win three elections in a row, the election saw Modi lose his parliamentary majority. After winning 303 seats in 2019,...

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