________________
India cracking down on Environmental NGOs • In recent months, international and American-based NGOs have had their funds flowing into India frozen by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, and earlier this month, an Indian Greenpeace activist bound for the U.K. to discuss her work with members of parliament was “offloaded" from her flight in New Delhi.
More recently, the Ministry moved to stop any international bank transfers by four U.S.-based groups - 350.org, the Sierra Club, Avaaz, and the Bank Information Center. Each of the groups has questioned one or more of India's coal projects,
http://grist.org/climate-energy/india-invites-obama-over-but-wants-350-org-and-sierra-club-to-stay-home/
Jan 2015
28
