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In a system like ours, where the average person approaching the average police station does so without any great hope for justice, it is due process which is the most urgent need to protect life and liberty.
For India, the scandal is a PR disaster with harmful consequences for national security.
Two arrests over the past week from UP make it clear that this freedom no longer exists. Or rather, as Dada Idi Amin infamously once said, “There is freedom of speech, but we cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”
The decision by Twitter to move court against the government opens up the possibility of a new phase in India’s ongoing battle for the protection of civil liberties, where corporates take up the cudgels.
The arrests of Mohammad Zubair and Teesta Setalvad and the ongoing detention of Siddque Kappan and Fahad Shah highlight the tenuous existence of truth-tellers in a post-truth world.