Since she declared a state of emergency eight weeks ago, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has suspended civil liberties, imposed rigid press censorship and arrested at least 20,000 people (some estimates go as high as 60,000), including a number of opposition political leaders and dissident members of her ruling Congress Party. Last week, in the harshest step toward authoritarianism since the original clampdown, Indira rammed through Parliament a bill that would end her current battle with the courts by changing—retroactively—the election laws she had been convicted of violating.
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