"Government authorities are increasingly treating human rights organizations like criminal enterprises," said Amnesty International India executive director Aakar Patel. Vijay Khurana, secretary-general of the Confederation of Non-Governmental Organizations of India, supports the government crackdown on international organizations doing aid work with foreign funding. "There is complete intolerance to any kind of government criticism," said Jayati Ghosh, an Indian economist who studies India's human rights landscape. Ganguly said she has seen the Modi government's aversion to scrutiny by foreign aid groups and agencies since it came to power in 2014. India's crackdown on international rights groups mirrors developments elsewhere in South Asia.

Source: ABC News February 06, 2019 01:25 UTC