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Human rights activists have called on India to reform or repeal laws that threaten free expression in the world’s largest democracy and muzzle charities such as environmental group Greenpeace.
Some laws are not only silencing marginal voices but are also fuelling graft, a report by PEN International, a London-based group of writers promoting freedom of speech, and the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto said.
“We hope this report will help the government and courts further review laws that silence dissent and move forward with the necessary repeals and reforms,” said Marian Botsford Fraser, chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee.
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