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US Lawmakers, Indian-American Bodies Seek Thorough Probe Into Indian Consulate Attack
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US Lawmakers, Indian-American Bodies Seek Thorough Probe Into Indian Consulate Attack

[ad_1] Earlier this month, Khalistan supporters attacked Indian consulate in San Francisco.Washington: American lawmakers and several Indian-American community organisations have denounced the recent attack on the Indian consulate in San Francisco and called for a thorough probe into the incident so that the perpetrators are brought to justice.While the right to protest is ingrained in the US Constitution, no one has the right to engage in violence, they said in separate statements and tweets on Friday.They also condemned the threats issued to Indian diplomats, including India's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, by separatist Sikhs and called on the Biden administration to ensure safety of foreign diplomats.A video by Khalistan supporters, dated July 2 and posted on Twitter, sh...
Supreme Court backs free speech rules in online stalking case
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Supreme Court backs free speech rules in online stalking case

[ad_1] The US Supreme Court sided with free speech advocates Tuesday in ruling that a man's online harassment of a country singer could only be deemed illegally threatening if he knew it could be understood as such.The high court overruled the Colorado conviction of Billy Counterman for making what the western US state deemed threats among the thousands of unwelcome Facebook messages he sent to country singer Coles Whalen from 2014 to 2016. True threats are not protected by the US Constitution's guarantee of free speech rights. The Colorado court found based on state laws that Counterman's messages to Whalen -- such as writing "die, don't need you" and "staying in cyber life is going to kill you" -- could be objectively considered threats.Counterman's attorney turned to the Supreme Cour...