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History teaches us that it is the voice of the minority that any democratic government needs to protect most, internationally-acclaimed lawyer and activist Amal Clooney said today. “Silencing minority voices did not serve society well” when Mandela and Gandhi were imprisoned for sedition, she noted, before drawing on modern parallels.
Delivering the final lecture at the two-day India Today Conclave 2016 in New Delhi, Clooney said, “Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic. Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent, it fosters it.”
“Locking up students for sedition will be a step in the wrong direction,” the 38-year-old lawyer said when she was informed about the JNU row by moderator Karan Thapar.
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