Tag: British writer Aatish Taseer

India chided for revoking overseas citizenship of British Modi critic

NEW DELHI – Press freedom watchdogs rebuked the Indian government on Friday for revoking the overseas citizenship of British writer Aatish Taseer, calling it retribution for criticism of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In May, weeks before Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) overwhelmingly won election to return […]

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