The Show Trial of Arundhati Roy
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By prosecuting the author Arundhati Roy over comments she made in 2010, India's government wants to send a tough message to dissenters: conform or else. But the case will merely provide more fodder to those who have already downgraded India to an “electoral autocracy” and lowered its press-freedom ranking.