India has recorded the second highest number of internet shutdowns until June this year with nine cases, according to Surfshark’s Internet Shutdown Tracker, which tracks such curbs across the globe. The highest number was recorded in Iran with 14 cases, as per the tracker.
This comes over a month after a report by the Human Rights Watch and Internet Freedom Foundation pointed out that at least 54 out of the 127 internet shutdowns reported between 2020 and 2022 in India were in response to protests. The digital rights group Access Now had also claimed last year that India had witnessed the highest number of internet shutdowns across the globe in 2021 for the fourth consecutive year.
