Amnesty Halts India Operations, blames 'witch-hunt' by Authorities

The government of India completely freezes the bank account of Amnesty International by which the company suspended its all services in India and release it’s all employees form the company. The government did this all as a branch of “Witch-hunt” in its adverse statements. As per the reports of government that foreign funds are getting illegally and it was caught by the global rights watchdog and all the fund was never filed in the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.

After that, Amnesty invited a press conference in which they said that “our bank accounts were completely frozen by the governments of India on 10th September 2020 by which all our works have been suspended till any order and all our staff is released from the company in India and pause all the works such as ongoing campaign and research work”. As per our sources, this witch-hunt of the government of India is the latest in the list where human rights organizations are being noticed again unproven and motivated declarations, and it was all done with the Indian and international laws.

After the freezing of bank accounts, the company Amnesty made a report in which they gather all the government actions such as alleged benefits breaches in the Delhi riots and also they include article 370 which was removed from Jammu and Kashmir. The Executive Director of Amnesty International India Avinash Kumar passes a statement that “The incidents which were happened from the last two years such as the intense crackdown and the freeing of bank accounts of Amnesty International India is not accidental. This is all done by the government of India and by their bureaus such as the Enforcement Directorate, Delhi police, etc. which doesn’t support the human rights violations which were happened in Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir”.

The governments reject the charges which were raised by the watchdogs and the higher authorities of government said that the company Amnesty was examined by the Enforcement Directorate against the infringements of getting foreign funds. As per the reports of the home ministry, this company gets the money from foreign through the FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) mode and this mode is illegal in India because it’s not approved in non-profits. In 2011-12, for getting around Rs. 1.69 crore from Amnesty UK, the Indian company didn’t get approval from the government to take the money and in 2013, the approval was denied by the government.