Rihanna angers Indian government with tweet about farmers’ protests

Singer's message had made reference to news report about heavy-handed measures against protesters

The pop singer Rihanna has provoked the ire of the Indian government after wading into the debate over protests by farmers in the country, just as heavy police security and war-like" barricades continue to be built up at demonstration sites around Delhi.

This week, authorities began cracking down on the hundreds of thousands of farmers camped out on the Delhi border since November. Police embarked on a heavy fortification of three camps in Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu, erecting layers of concrete barriers, digging trenches, putting up barbed-wire fences and cementing iron nails in the roads, in effect cutting off entry and exit to the sites.