Protect the dissenter
September 09, 2017  08:59
One critical test to adjudge the claim of any country of being democratic is its tolerance of dissent and the protection afforded to the dissenter. 

The recent premeditated murder of Gauri Lankesh, apparently not for any personal enmity or monetary gain, was most deplorable. 

Equally deplorable is the consequent murder of democracy '" because dissent is the soul of democracy.

Read Soli J Sorabjee's full piece HERE
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