The group says the government has cancelled the licenses of more than 20,600 NGOs in the last 10 years.
Civil society and the media have long complained of harassment under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration.
Amnesty said the recommendations of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force were being abused to bring in “draconian laws to stifle the non-profit sector” and block organisations from funding. “Under the guise of combatting terrorism, the Indian government has leveraged the Financial Action Task Force’s recommendations to tighten its arsenal of financial and counter-terrorism laws which are routinely misused to target and silence critics,” Amnesty International India chair Aakar Patel said in a statement.
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