New Delhi (CNN)A student leader whose arrest last month on sedition charges sparked massive protests in India has vowed to protect free speech in the world's largest democracy as it engages in an intense civil rights debate. On Friday, a day after his release on bail, Kanhaiya Kumar spoke with the national media on the sprawling campus of New Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, a 46-year-old institution known for its left-leaning ideological discussions on a variety of issues. Kumar was arrested on February 12 over a demonstration that India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, alleged was "anti-national" because it commemorated the 2013 execution of a...
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