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Over the past eight years, the Narendra Modi government has tightened the rules and procedures for NGOs to receive and use foreign funds
The activist-author told The Wire the Union home ministry's move to cancel the FCRA license of the Centre for Equity Studies is a "direct attack on the principles of freedom of expression and freedom to dissent".
The ministry also accused the Centre for Equity Studies of using foreign contributions to create and release reports authored by non-FCRA associations.
According to an order issued by the home ministry, the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, prohibits acceptance of foreign contribution by correspondents, columnists, cartoonists, editors, owners, printers and publishers of a registered newspaper.
Irked over the cases lodged against its senior leaders, including the KPCC president, the Congress in Kerala on Tuesday accused the ruling CPI(M) and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan...