Targeting Free Speech Or Misuse Of FCRA?

The issue in focus is the controversy around Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, NGOs and anti-coal mining protests. Four months after its license for foreign donations was revoked, one of the country's leading public policy think tanks - the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) - lost the tax exemption status it had for almost five decades. This is not the first time that a foreign-funded organisation has come under scrutiny or has been accused of engaging in activism.