India blocked the BBC documentary on Modi.
According to Reuters, an adviser to the Indian government announced that the country had invoked emergency powers under New Delhi’s Information Technology Act to block the broadcast of a BBC television documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots. A documentary in which the management and leadership of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the riots is questioned!
Kanchan Gupta, the advisor of the Indian government, announced this news on his Twitter account and wrote that although the BBC did not air this documentary in India, the videos related to it were uploaded on some YouTube channels.
Gupta also announced that the Indian government has ordered Twitter to block more than 50 tweets related to the video and the documentary, and YouTube has been asked to stop uploading the video, and according to him, both platforms are complying with these requests. have agreed
Modi was chief minister of the western state of Gujarat when the riots erupted in India; According to government statistics, more than 1,000 people lost their lives during the riots, and most of the victims were Muslims. The violence started after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire and killed 59 people. Human rights activists claim that the number of victims of riots is at least twice the official statistics.
Modi has denied any allegations of failure to prevent riots. A special investigative team appointed by India’s Supreme Court to investigate Modi’s role in the violence said in its 541-page report in 2012 that there was no evidence to prosecute Modi.
