Explore India's "foreign hand" playbook, a three-step government response to mass protests: delegitimization, financial chokeholds, and leadership arrests. This pattern has been applied across various movements, from anti-CAA protests to farmers' agitations.
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Political ScienceMarch 5, 202611 min readEvergreen
Comparing free-speech regimes by reading their constitutions gets you the wrong answer. India's enumerated restrictions are not far from Germany's, and further from America's. The difference that matters is that a struck-down provision produced twice as many cases after it was struck down as before.
The oldest argument in human rights is whether universal standards can be applied to particular cultures. Egypt is the case where we can check. Prohibition plus medical authority did not end the practice — it relocated it, and gave it a safety justification it did not have before.