Authorities froze bank accounts after criticism of government’s human rights record

Amnesty International has been forced to halt its work in India and lay off staff after the government froze its bank accounts across the country.

The Indian enforcement directorate, an agency that investigates economic crimes, froze the accounts of Amnesty’s Indian arm this month after the group published two reports highly critical of the government’s human rights record.

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