# India: activists arrested, journalists targeted and laws tightened to increase control

CIVICUS Monitor, 2026

- Address: https://monitor.civicus.org/explore/india-activists-arrested-abducted-and-tortured-journalists-targeted-and-laws-tightened-to-increase-control/
- Kind: reference
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [India: one-year prison sentence for the journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case, February 2026](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-india-journalist-sentenced-adani-defamation)
- [Claim 71: Ravi Nair was sentenced to one year in prison over the defamation case.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/71)
- [Claim 72: CIVICUS documented the sentencing alongside other arrests and summonses of Indian journalists in the same period.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/72)
- [Claim 73: CIVICUS reported the sentencing as of its 2026 monitoring.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/73)

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