Posted: Feb 06, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 6
People attend a Maha Panchayat, or grand village council meeting, as part of a farmers protest against India s agricultural laws at Kandela village in the northern state of Haryana on Feb. 3.(Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
Refusing interaction between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping on the side-lines of the G-20 summit at Hamburg last week, China on Monday said that no “bilateral meeting” took place between the two leaders.
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New Delhi
When Vinod K. Jose, executive editor of The Caravan, India’s leading investigating magazine, logged onto Twitter on Monday, he was shocked to find the magazine’s account blocked.
Mr. Jose was already dealing with a case of sedition and other charges against him, the magazine owners, and a freelance journalist. At the heart of the allegations is the magazine’s coverage of the ongoing farmers’ protests that have gripped India for more than two months.
As the farmers camp out at the edges of the capital, protesting new agricultural laws they say will devastate their earnings, the mainstream and social media have come under unprecedented attacks from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Critics say it has used the massive demonstrations to escalate a crackdown on free speech, detaining journalists and freezing Twitter accounts.