Modi Regime Dismisses Swiss Criticism Over Human Rights Situation in India

Modi Regime Dismisses Swiss Criticism Over Human Rights Situation in India

RMN News Report Highlights:

• 🇮🇳 India rejected Swiss comments at UNHRC on minority rights as “surprising, shallow, and ill-informed”.
• 🇨🇭 Switzerland, as UNHRC president, urged India to protect minorities and uphold freedom of expression and media.
• 🚨 Critics warn of an “apocalyptic situation” in India, calling for external intervention and drawing parallels to 1930s Germany.
• 📊 A new report reveals that the BJP’s electoral dominance is due to manipulation and manufactured narratives, not popular support.

RMN News Human Rights Desk
September 11, 2025

Geneva, Switzerland – India has strongly rejected observations made by Switzerland at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) regarding the treatment of minorities and freedom of expression in the South Asian nation, labeling the remarks as “surprising, shallow, and ill-informed”. The diplomatic exchange occurred on Wednesday (September 10) during the General Debate on the oral update by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 60th Session in Geneva.

Switzerland, which currently holds the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council, called on India to take more robust action to safeguard minority rights. The Swiss delegate specifically urged New Delhi to “take effective measures to protect the minorities and uphold the rights to the freedom of expression and the freedom of the media”. Due to Switzerland’s presidency, its observations carry additional diplomatic weight.

Responding on behalf of India, a Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva, dismissed the Swiss statement, saying it is all the more important for Switzerland to avoid wasting the council’s time with narratives that are blatantly false and do not do justice to the reality of India. He further suggested that Switzerland should instead focus on its own challenges such as racism, systematic discrimination and xenophobia.

Critics argue that bureaucrats in India are often seen as “docile” and blindly obeying PM Modi’s directives, mechanically reading prepared statements to defend the regime despite widespread suffering due to poverty, corruption, inflation, unemployment, lawlessness, and religious animosity.

This rebuttal comes amidst ongoing global scrutiny and reports critical of the Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sources indicate that the Modi government often rejects global reports revealing government failures or autocracy, without offering logical reasoning, instead claiming they are part of a global conspiracy to discredit Modi and his administration.

The government also frequently asserts that such issues are internal matters where foreign powers cannot interfere. However, critics argue that in situations of “frequent state crimes and human rights violations,” world leaders have a “definite role to protect people who are being persecuted and tortured,” suggesting that external intervention might be required in what they describe as an “apocalyptic situation”. A comparison has been drawn to Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, with a warning that India’s plight could mirror that period if not controlled immediately.

Furthermore, a new political research report titled “Unveiling the Smokescreen of Indian Democracy: Fabricated Factors Masking Electoral Manipulation” suggests that the electoral dominance of the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not actually based on popular support. Instead, the report posits that this dominance is driven by a multi-layered strategy involving a “smokescreen” of manufactured narratives and alleged widespread electoral manipulation.

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