<span class="vcard">Ria Chakrabarty</span>

Ria Chakrabarty

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Ria Chakrabarty is the Policy Director for Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR), where she leads the organization’s advocacy efforts with government actors. HfHR provides a Hindu voice advocating for human rights around the world, especially in South Asia. Through this work, Ria has led initiatives in support of political prisoners, freedom of expression, and democracy in India. She is also on LinkedIn.

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In this picture taken on Jan. 9, 2023, content creator Narendra Verma (C) speaks with his team members during the shooting of a scripted video in Sitapur, in India's Uttar Pradesh state. The acting is dire and the scenarios fake, but staged videos are peddling disinformation and fanning sectarian tensions in India, which has seen rising Hindu radicalization under nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A different operation allegedly distributing false conspiracy theories targeting US-based groups critical of Modi's policies and practices, Disinfo Lab, was the subject of a December 2023 investigative article in the Washington Post. (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP via Getty Images)

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