India clamps down on free speech to fight farmer protests - Newspaper
Security personnel stand guard next to police barricades as farmers continue their protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms blocking a highway at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in Ghaziabad on February 6, 2021. — AFP NEW DELHI: As the farmers camp out at the edges of the Indian 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 cr...