PEN Pinter Prize: India’s Arundhati Roy Gets UN Backing

he Indian author Arundhati Roy has attracted backing from the United Nations’ Human Rights Office in the charges launched against her and the former Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain.

The office of the UN’s high commissioner Volker Türk “urges authorities to drop cases” against Roy and Hussain, which have been lodged in India against them under the country’s Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The charges are for “anti-national remarks” that the two are alleged by the state to have made about Kashmir at a seminar in New Delhi in 2010.

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