“The Indian government provided no specifics to Satter’s lawyers on how his journalistic work had been deemed a national security threat to India. However, Satter’s lawyers noted that the cancellation of his OCI came at exactly the same time that a defamation case had been filed against him in India for a story he had written on the Indian cybersecurity company Appin and its co-founder Rajat Khare.
“Satter’s investigation for Reuters, titled ‘How an Indian startup hacked the world,’ exposed the workings of Appin, alleging it had become ‘a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe.”
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