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India Raids Amnesty International Office in Latest Crackdown on NGOs

HeadlineOct 29, 2018

In India, federal authorities raided the offices of Amnesty International’s India branch Thursday, in the latest crackdown on civil society groups by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Investigators spent over 10 hours searching tax records in Amnesty’s Bangalore headquarters, before freezing the NGO’s bank accounts. The raid follows a similar government action against the environmental group Greenpeace earlier this month.

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