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– Criminal case against Indian poet provokes controversy over speech rights (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News April 5, 2017

A poet in West Bengal has been charged with "deliberate acts intended to outrage religious feelings" for a poem alluding to State Assembly elections in India.
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