India: Contempt conviction threatens free speech in so called world's biggest democracy August 26, 2020

India: Contempt conviction threatens free speech in so called world's biggest democracy August 26, 2020

In India, conviction of a Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan for his social media criticism of judiciary has marred country's claim to be world's biggest democracy.

In a tweet, Prashant Bhushan had said when historians look at how democracy has been destroyed in India in the past six years, they will mark role of the court and the past four top jus