![]() “They did not last for three days, as the documentary said, but rather three months. “These were not spontaneous but orchestrated killings,” she stated. His arrest is a complete sham."Īakashi Bhatt further said, the BBC documentary was only the “tip of the iceberg” when it came to Modi’s complicity. He was thousands of kilometres away while the man died in police custody, which was a death deemed to be from medical reasons. ![]() Commenting on her father's life imprisonment shortly after this destruction, she said, “My father was arrested for the death in custody of a man he never met. She said, after her father testified publicly against Modi’s complicity in the riots, the Indian government bulldozed her family home. ![]() Aakashi Bhatt, daughter of jailed former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, told participants that many of India's institutions, including the media and judiciary, “are subverted from top to bottom” and “used by the regime to do its dirty work.” Much of the panel's discussion focused on India's attempts to keep the documentary from reaching Indian audiences. Yusuf Dawood noted, bootleg copies of the documentary are circulating underground in India, but not on social media that he called “a billionaire's club” run by the likes of Elon Musk, which he said are “poking a hot needle into our values.” “Everything we do in the UK is completely opposite of what happens in India,” he added. Imran's uncle Yusuf Dawood, calling himself spokesperson for the family, told the audience that it took until August 2002, six months after the riots, to even get confirmation of the murders of his family members - what he called a sign of an official cover-up. Speaking at the panel discussion which followed the screening of the documentary which recalled 2002 Gujarat riots, Imran Dawood, a British citizen, said the rioters carried out “targeted attacks on Muslims,” using “the same tactics as in Nazi Germany.” ![]() Among those who have spoken at the high pofile NPC include US presidents, monarchs, prime ministers and premiers of different countries, members of Congress, Cabinet officials, ambassadors, scholars, entertainers, business leaders and athletes. "We at the National Press Club demand in the strongest terms that the government stop its persecution of journalists and its suppression of press freedom in India”, O’Reilly said. The United States' premier journalists' organisation, the National Press Club (NPC), has come down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for recent "attacks on journalists in India." Speaking at the screening of an episode of the BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question,” banned in India, in the club premises, NPC President Eileen O’Reilly said, “Since Modi came to power we have watched with frustration and disappointment as his regime has suppressed the rights of its citizens to a free and independent news media." ![]()
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