Does Criticizing India Count as Sedition? Arundhati Roy Will Find Out (11/30/10)
“Mr. Pandit, who belongs to a minority Hindu community, has accused Ms. Roy of committing sedition for saying that Kashmir was not an integral part of India, and said the country should set a tough example by punishing those ‘who instigate communal passions in the name of Kashmir.’
Many Kashmiri Hindus were forced to flee Muslim-majority Kashmir after an insurgency against Indian rule flared up in 1989 and the region has also been a cause for ongoing hostility between India and Pakistan.
Ms. Roy could not immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday. But last month, when talk of a possible sedition charge first began, she said in a statement from Kashmir, ‘I said what millions of people here say every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators have written and said for years. Anybody who cares to read the transcripts of my speeches will see that they were fundamentally a call for justice.'”
“If convicted, a person can face punishment of up to life in prison.”
see also, Arundhati Roy faces arrest over Kashmir remark (10/26/10)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/arundhati-roy-kashmir-india
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