Gujarat: Human rights groups and NGO's take exception to UK's decision to re-establish ties with Narendra Modi

From: The Hindu, AHMEDABAD, October 23, 2012

“British gesture at odds with Rights Declaration”

[by] Manas Dasgupta

Some human rights activists and voluntary organisations in Gujarat have taken strong exception to the British government’s decision to improve ties with Gujarat and encourage industrial investments in the State.

In a memorandum submitted to James Bevan, British High Commissioner in Delhi, who paid a courtesy call on Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday at the instance of the British Foreign Office, Fr. Cedric Prakash, convener of Prashant — a voluntary organisation working for human rights, particularly those of victims of the 2002 communal riots — said the British gesture was “untimely” and in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights fondly cherished by the British government.

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