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8. Amazon Best Seller Pet Food and Supplies Arrests made under sedition laws In October last year, journalists reporting on the gang-rape of a Dalit woman in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, were denied access to the woman’s village, with several reports of journalists being intimidated and manhandled by officials. Journalist Siddique Kappan was on his way to Hathras when he was arrested and charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). He is among several journalists who have been arrested under the UAPA and other sedition laws since 2019. Several months after his arrest, Kappan was still being held in an...
