Indian authorities recently arrested a cartoonist known for satirical government corruption Asai Mu Trivedi and sue them ready to sedition and other charges. I did not expect this practice but poke a hornet's nest "of the domestic and international public opinion, so that the Indian government has been criticized.
"Times of India" dated 11 editorial calling for the abolition of the British colonial era anti-incitement laws. The article says: "anti-incitement laws in independent India, has not only been repealed, and they were used against a variety of dissent. Politicians apparently independent India in outdated colonial law as a tool of intimidation of contemporary deterrence." Indian Express "questioned the government fuss, said the arrest Trivedi seems to "take the bombs to destroy a rabbit.
Agence France-Presse and many other Western media have linked This is in line with the Government of India has recently shielding a series of social networking sites "crime", said the Indian authorities, the latest evidence of the growing intolerance of criticism. Western relish the "world's largest democracy, and all of a sudden become the eyes of many critics and wear new clothes the emperor.
Reuters said on the 11th, "shield, blocking and" seems the new motto of the Indian politicians, whether it is removed from school textbooks comics, or shielding more than 300 pages and Twitter accounts reflect this . The conservative shift in the Government of India is also reflected in its introduction of alcohol licensing system, claiming that Indian culture does not allow women drinking.
Indian media revealed later in the 11th, the face of enormous domestic and international pressure, the Indian authorities may abandon Trivedi sedition allegations.
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