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Thomson Reuters Foundation / Rina Chandran / Apr 27
“Twitter withheld some tweets after a legal request by the Indian government, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Saturday. These included tweets from a lawmaker, a minister in the state of West Bengal, and a filmmaker. ‘Suppression of information and criticism of government is not only dangerous for India but it is putting people around the world at risk,’ said Mirza Saaib Beg, a lawyer whose tweets were among those withheld.”
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