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Opens the app if installed, or Google Play to download it.Freedom House has flagged rising discrimination against Muslims and minorities, as well as increased pressure on journalists and government critics under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The US Embassy in Australia on Tuesday shared a map on X classifying India as “partly free”, drawing on an annual assessment by US-based non-profit organisation Freedom House.
India has retained its “partly free” status for the sixth consecutive year in the organisation’s Freedom in the World report.
The report said that although India remained a multiparty democracy, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had overseen discriminatory policies and increased persecution of Muslims.
It also noted a rise in harassment of journalists, non-governmental organisations and other critics of the government since Modi came to power.
“The BJP has increasingly used government institutions to target political opponents,” the report said, adding that Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis continued to face economic and social marginalisation.
The 2026 assessment examined political rights and civil liberties in 195 countries and 13 territories, assigning scores on a scale of 100.
India scored 62 points, down one point from 63 in the previous assessment. The country was classified as “Free” until 2020, before being downgraded to “Partly Free” in 2021.
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