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India features on the list of nations with “repressedâ€? democratic values in a report released by South African non-profit organization Civicus ahead of the United States summit on democracy scheduled to start from December 9.According to the Civicus People Power Under Attack 2021, 37 of the 110 participants of the summit, including India, routinely restricted civic rights that are “the bedrock of any open and true democracyâ€?.The report took into consideration factors such as the detention of protestors and journalists for classifying the countries into five categories with people in “openâ€? nations having democratic freedom and those in “repressedâ€? and “closedâ€? nations facing several restrictions.In India, the report noted, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or UAPA, was abused by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep several people “in pre-trial detention on baseless charges and deny them bailâ€?.The report mentioned the detentions made under UAPA in the Bhima Koregaon case, including those of activists Sudha Bharadwaj and Stan Swamy. While Bharadwaj was granted bail by Bombay High Court amid the National Investigation Agency’s vehement efforts to oppose it, Swamy died in prison. He was denied bail repeatedly.The farmers’ protests also featured on the Civicus report. The non-profit organisation said that India “vilified and repressed the farmerp &H›ÝÝ‹‹”™XY[Ü™H

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