{"id":12879,"date":"2023-10-10T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/booker-winner-arundhati-roy-facing-prosecution-in-india-media\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:43:22","slug":"booker-winner-arundhati-roy-facing-prosecution-in-india-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/booker-winner-arundhati-roy-facing-prosecution-in-india-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker winner Arundhati Roy facing prosecution in India: media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/576152\/i-fight-for-the-love-and-pride-of-my-people-arundhati-roy-2\">2010 speech<\/a> about Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, Indian media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, 61, is one of India\u2019s most famous living authors, but her writing and activism, including her trenchant criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government, has made her a polarising figure at home.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal complaint accusing her and several others of sedition had languished in India\u2019s notoriously glacial criminal justice system since it was first filed in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, Indian media reported that V.K. Saxena, the top official in the administration governing New Delhi, had given approval for the case to proceed before the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Saxena\u2019s directive said there was enough evidence for a case to proceed against Roy and her codefendants \u201cfor their speeches at a public function\u201d in the capital, <em>The Hindu<\/em> newspaper <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/delhi-lg-approves-prosecution-of-arundhati-roy-kashmir-professor-in-2010-provocative-speeches-case\/article67403942.ece\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/587809\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The original complaint accuses Roy and others of giving speeches advocating the secession of occupied Kashmir from India.<\/p>\n<p>Kashmir is one of the most sensitive topics of public discussion in India, which has fought two wars and countless skirmishes with Pakistan over control of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people, including Indian troops, militants and civilians, have been killed in Kashmir since an insurgency against Indian rule broke out in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Roy\u2019s home in New Delhi was besieged by protesters in 2010 when her remarks from the panel discussion became public.<\/p>\n<p>Two of her co-defendants have died in the 13 years since the case was first lodged.<\/p>\n<p>Roy became the first non-expatriate Indian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for her acclaimed debut novel \u201cThe God of Small Things\u201d in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>She is also known for her passionate essays on the plight of the poor and dispossessed in India, occasionally earning the ire of the country\u2019s elite.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years her work has marked her as one of the most high-profile critics of Modi\u2019s government, which has been accused by rights groups and others of targeting activists for criminal prosecution and working to suppress free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters Without Borders warns \u201cpress freedom is in crisis\u201d in India.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, India dropped from 140 to 161 on its rankings of media freedom, including 11 places since last year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, Indian media reported on Tuesday. Roy, 61, is one of India\u2019s most famous living authors, but her writing and activism, including her trenchant criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/10233240a861c4f.jpg?r=234004","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}