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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 file photo, plain clothes policemen escort Indian student Sharjeel Imam, center, as he is brought to be produced before a court in New Delhi, India. Critics, intellectuals, human rights activists, filmmakers, students and journalists in seen as opposed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government are being increasingly silenced under a colonial-era sedition law. Official data reveal as many as 332 people were arrested under the law between 2016 and 2018, though only seven were convicted, suggesting that the police have struggled to gather evidence against the accused. (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 file photo, plain clothes policemen escort Indian student Sharjeel Imam, center, as he is brought to be produced before a court in New Delhi, India. Critics, intellectuals, human rights activists, filmmakers, students and journalists in seen as opposed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government are being increasingly silenced under a colonial-era sedition law. Official data reveal as many as 332 people were arrested under…

March 6, 2020

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Critics of India's Modi government face sedition charges
March 6, 2020 6:07 a.m.

Critics of India's Modi government face sedition charges

NEW DELHI (AP) — Sharjeel Imam was a little-known research scholar and a student activist until Indian police launched a manhunt across five states to nab him for a protest speech he gave calling for a month-long road blockade in the county's northeast.