Global Rights Groups Urge FATF to Call on the Indian Govt to Stop Alleged UAPA, PMLA, FCRA Abuse
Global Rights Groups Urge FATF to Call on the Indian Govt to Stop Alleged UAPA, PMLA, FCRA Abuse
07/11/2023
The Wire / by The Wire Staff
Three rights organisations – Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Security Network – in a joint statement have said that India’s actions have flouted both FATF’s standards and international human rights law.
Recognising the alleged misuse of terror laws in India, several international human rights organisations have urged the global terrorism financing and money laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), to call on the Indian government to stop prosecuting, intimidating and harassing human rights defenders and activists.
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India urged to stop ‘weaponizing’ laws to crush dissent
07/11/2023
UCA News / by UCA News reporter
Counterterrorism law, financial regulations are used to target, intimidate, harass, and punish critics, rights groups say
Three global rights groups have urged the Indian government to stop targeting rights activists by abusing counterterrorism and financial laws and called on a major terror financing and money laundering watchdog to intervene.
The Indian government is “weaponizing” the laws to detain and punish rights activists, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and the Charity & Security Network said in a joint statement on Nov. 3.
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India’s anti-terror laws being used to target non-profits, activists, says report ahead of FATF visit
04/11/2023
Newslaundry / by Sumedha Mittal
The FATF will visit India this month for an ‘onsite evaluation’.
Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force’s India visit to probe alleged misuse of local laws to crackdown on non-profits, a report published by a US-based rights group has alleged that India’s expanding scope of anti-terror laws have “wide-ranging adverse impacts” on rights defenders and non-profit organisations.
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● The Preliminary Fair Trial Report: Bhima Koregaon, Oct 2019
Joint Press Release – India: Stop Abusing Counterterrorism Regulations
03/11/2023
By Amnesty International
Financial Action Task Force Review Should Document Crackdown on Dissent
The global terrorism financing and money laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)opens in a new tab, should call on the Indianopens in a new tab government to stop prosecuting, intimidating and harassing human rights defenders, activists and non-profit organisations in the country on the pretext of countering terrorist financing, Amnesty International, Charity and Security Network and Human Rights Watch said today. FATF members are to start their fourth periodic review of India’s record on tackling illicit funding on November 6, 2023.
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Also read:
● India: Arrests, Raids Target Critics of Government (Amnesty International / Oct 2023)
● AI Report: India’s exploitation of terrorism financing assessments to target the civil society (Amnesty.org / Sep 2023)
● Report: UAPA – CRIMINALISING DISSENT AND STATE TERROR (PUCL / Sep 2022)
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