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India’s arrest of activist tied to Greta Thunberg’s movement sparks outrage

India’s arrest of activist tied to Greta Thunberg’s movement sparks outrage

CHANDINI MONNAPA and RUPAM JAIN INDIAN politicians and activists on Monday condemned the arrest of a 22-year-old climate campaigner accused of helping edit and distribute an online document that Sweden's Greta Thunberg had promoted in support of farmers protesting in the country. Thunberg had shared a "toolkit" on Twitter which listed ways to help Indian farmers, who have been protesting agricultural reforms they fear will ruin their livelihoods. Over the weekend, police brought Disha Ravi, a leader of the Indian arm of Thunberg's climate crisis-related Fridays for Future movement, to the capital from her home in the southern city of…
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