The Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in India for a speech about India-Occupied Kashmir she gave 13 years ago after a top official approved the move, local media reported on Wednesday. A “social activist” from India-Occupied Kashmir filed a police complaint in 2010 following speeches by Roy and three others at a conference organised by a rights group, the reports said.

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