Amnesty Bengaluru Event

Amnesty was charged with sedition earlier this month after Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP - the student body affiliated to the BJP's ideological mentor RSS -- claimed anti-India and secessionist slogans were heard during an Amnesty-organised event on Kashmir.

The United States has refrained from commenting on the sedition charges against Amnesty International over an event where anti-India slogans were reportedly raised, but said it respects the right of the global rights watchdog to express itself freely.

Under attack over the Amnesty International row, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara today said he had not given a clean chit to the rights advocacy group, which has been booked for sedition for hosting an event where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.

National security does not get compromised when a few people shout slogans, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today said, defending Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara's clean chit to Amnesty International in a case of alleged sedition slapping which he contended was a "big mistake".

Amnesty India has never involved itself in any kind of anti-national activities, Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara said today.

The police on Friday caned about 100 Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists and took 40 of them into preventive custody for attempting to barge into Amnesty International India office here to protest the anti-India slogans raised at a Kashmiri event the organisation held here last week.

Amnesty today advised its staff in India to work either from home or a different location in the wake of protests against the NGO for organising an event where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.

The union Home Ministry has begun what officials describe as a preliminary exercise to find out whether human rights-focused NGO Amnesty International's India chapter has the required permission to receive foreign funding.

Amidst allegations of anti-India slogans being raised at an event organised by rights group Amnesty International in Bengaluru, the Home Ministry has launched a probe into the funding of the non-governmental organisation for "possible" violation of foreign contribution rules.

Protests by against Amnesty International India spread to other cities in Karnataka on Tuesday demanding the arrest of its representatives for organising an event in Bengaluru where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.

A day after a sedition case was filed against it, Amnesty International's India chapter said its members did not shout anti-India slogans, while the BJP said it wants Amnesty to be investigated by the Centre. The Congress, which is ruling Karnataka, said videos of the event are being studied and "things are not very clear" at this point.

Amnesty International's India chapter has said it has not yet received a copy of a FIR or First Information Report in a sedition case filed against it in Bengaluru, but has questioned why "organising an event to defend constitutional values is now being branded 'anti-India' and criminalized."

Amnesty was charged with sedition earlier this month after Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP - the student body affiliated to the BJP's ideological mentor RSS -- claimed anti-India and secessionist slogans were heard during an Amnesty-organised event on Kashmir.

The United States has refrained from commenting on the sedition charges against Amnesty International over an event where anti-India slogans were reportedly raised, but said it respects the right of the global rights watchdog to express itself freely.

Under attack over the Amnesty International row, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara today said he had not given a clean chit to the rights advocacy group, which has been booked for sedition for hosting an event where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.

National security does not get compromised when a few people shout slogans, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today said, defending Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara's clean chit to Amnesty International in a case of alleged sedition slapping which he contended was a "big mistake".

Amnesty India has never involved itself in any kind of anti-national activities, Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara said today.

The police on Friday caned about 100 Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists and took 40 of them into preventive custody for attempting to barge into Amnesty International India office here to protest the anti-India slogans raised at a Kashmiri event the organisation held here last week.

Amnesty today advised its staff in India to work either from home or a different location in the wake of protests against the NGO for organising an event where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.

The union Home Ministry has begun what officials describe as a preliminary exercise to find out whether human rights-focused NGO Amnesty International's India chapter has the required permission to receive foreign funding.

Amidst allegations of anti-India slogans being raised at an event organised by rights group Amnesty International in Bengaluru, the Home Ministry has launched a probe into the funding of the non-governmental organisation for "possible" violation of foreign contribution rules.

Protests by against Amnesty International India spread to other cities in Karnataka on Tuesday demanding the arrest of its representatives for organising an event in Bengaluru where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.

A day after a sedition case was filed against it, Amnesty International's India chapter said its members did not shout anti-India slogans, while the BJP said it wants Amnesty to be investigated by the Centre. The Congress, which is ruling Karnataka, said videos of the event are being studied and "things are not very clear" at this point.

Amnesty International's India chapter has said it has not yet received a copy of a FIR or First Information Report in a sedition case filed against it in Bengaluru, but has questioned why "organising an event to defend constitutional values is now being branded 'anti-India' and criminalized."