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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Rights group lobbied with EU to push Modi on FCRA -Bharti Jain

Rights group lobbied with EU to push Modi on FCRA -Bharti Jain

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published Published on Apr 2, 2016   modified Modified on Apr 2, 2016
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: A day before the India-EU summit on March 30, international human rights watchdog Human Rights Watch wrote to the European Union brass complaining how the Modi regime was using the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act to restrict foreign funding oto Indian NGOs like Greenpeace India and ones run by activist Teesta Setalvad, besides stifling free speech by those critical of the government.

Intelligence agencies have taken note of the "lobbying" by the HRW to show Indian government in poor light ahead of crucial negotiations with the EU. This conforms to the pattern, highlighted in an earlier Intelligence Bureau report against Greenpeace India, of international NGOs using adverse inputs from Indian NGOs funded by them to weaken New Delhi's hand in international trade negotiations.

In a letter written on March 29 to European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission president Jean-Calude Juncker, Human Rights Watch's EU advocacy director Lotte Leicht and its Asia division executive director Brad Adams, states that even as Modi seeks greater foreign investment for initiatives like Make in India, "showcasing Indian democracy and diversity abroad, it uses laws like FCRA to restrict foreign funding for civil society groups.

Getting into specifics, the watchdog alleges how Setalvad, "well-known for her work supporting victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots and for seeking criminal charges against scores of officials, including Prime Minister Modi", is being targeted in what "appeared to be acts of intimidation". The letter also raises the issue of offloading of Greenpeace India activitist Priya Pillai.

Also talking about free speech allegedly coming under attack in India, the reports recalls how this has invited condemnation from scholars and activists around the world.

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The Times of India, 2 April, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rights-group-lobbied-with-EU-to-push-Modi-on-FCRA/articleshow/51655287.cms


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