Amnesty International announced on Tuesday it must halt its human rights advocacy work in India because Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government froze the international organization's bank accounts.
Amnesty's India office described the move by an investigative agency of Modi's government as a "reprisal" for the organization's campaigns to improve human rights and free speech in a nation of 1.3 billion people — and a chilling indicator of Modi's growing authoritarianism.