Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
As U.S. President Joe Biden prepared on Tuesday to greet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his first state visit to the country since he took office in 2014, at least three progressive lawmakers said they will not attend the leader's congressional address in protest of numerous alleged human rights violations by Modi's government.Pia Krishnankutty of The Print in New Delhi reported that Reps. Ilhan Omar , Rashida Tlaib , and Jamie Raskin will boycott the event.
'The State Department's 2022 report on human rights in India noted that there have been credible reports of 'unlawful and arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings by the government or its agents' in Kashmir and beyond, violence and unjustified arrests of journalists, and life-threatening prison conditions.
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