Sedition laws

In today’s episode, we look at ICJ ruling on US freezing of Iranian assets, Israel attacks on Syria, Ecuador court’s approval of impeachment of president Lasso on corruption charges, and Pakistan court’s overturn of colonial-era sedition law.

The ‘survey’ operation conducted by the Income Tax Department was condemned by opposition parties, rights bodies and journalists’ organizations. It comes barely a month after the BBC aired a controversial two-part documentary on the Gujarat riots of 2002