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      'Scorched-Earth Politics': Indian MP Ousted, Sentenced to 2 Years Over Modi Insult

      "The metamorphosis of BJP's vindictive politics into autocracy is happening at an alarming pace," one Indian state's chief minister said in response to the parliamentary expulsion and criminal sentencing of Rahul Gandhi.

      Brett Wilkins
      Mar 24, 2023

      Democracy defenders sounded the alarm Friday after senior Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was ousted from his parliamentary seat a day after being sentenced to two years in prison in a dubious defamation case involving an insult against the surname of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

      India's lower house of Parliament announced Friday that Gandhi—a former president of the Indian National Congress party (called Congress for short) who until Thursday represented the constituency of Wayanad in the southern state of Kerala—was disqualified to serve in office due to his conviction for defaming the Modi name.

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      Amnesty Says India and Egypt Must End 'Unrelenting Assault on Human Rights'

      "Both countries show striking parallels in their attempts to harass and intimidate into silence all actual or perceived government critics and opponents."

      Brett Wilkins
      Jan 26, 2023

      As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the chief guest at his nation's 74th Republic Day celebrations, Amnesty International on Thursday led calls for both right-wing leaders to "address the ongoing human rights and impunity crises" in their respective countries.

      Meeting ahead of events commemorating the adoption of India's constitution—including a military parade in which members of the Egyptian army marched—Modi and El-Sisi agreed to elevate bilateral ties to a "strategic partnership," while calling for a "coordinated and concerted" effort to combat "terrorism."

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      Freedom of Press is Dealt Deadly Blows by Modi's Proto-Fascist Regime in India

      Freedom of Press is Dealt Deadly Blows by Modi's Proto-Fascist Regime in India

      The Wire case is yet one more example of Modi's regime trying to undermine the media landscape and, indeed, destroy dissenting media.

      C.J. Polychroniou
      Nov 13, 2022

      Since the end of the Cold War, hybrid political regimes have been steadily gaining ground across the world. Hybrid regimes rest on a form of governance which, as Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way pointed out in a 2002 essay in the Journal of Democracy, is essentially authoritarian in nature while "using formal democratic institutions" for "obtaining and exercising political authority." The term used for this type of political regime is competitive authoritarianism. In popular literature, the term "illiberal democracy" is encountered more frequently for the hybrid regimes that have emerged in the post-Cold War period, but an argument can be made against the use of such term as it weakens and stretches the definition of democracy.

      The international community must pay attention to the crackdown on free press in India.

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