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> India has banned a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged role in deadly riots more than 20 years ago from being shown in the country, in a move critics decried as an assault on press freedom.

> The two-part documentary "India: The Modi Question," criticizes Modi, who was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat in 2002 when riots broke out between the state's majority Hindus and minority Muslims.

> The BBC said Jack Straw, who was British foreign secretary in 2002 and features in the documentary, claims that Modi had "Played a pre-active part in pulling back the police and in tacitly encouraging the Hindu extremists."

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