Vanessa Dougnac, a freelance French journalist living in India for 25 years, saw her life turned upside down on January 18. Her name joins a list of those who criticize, abroad, Hindu nationalist policies of the government of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
The aim of the "ever growing arsenal of laws and policies" is singular: "to target and punish dissident voices," says Amnesty International. The Indian diaspora is the largest in the world, with nearly 18 million people in 2020, according to UN figures.