IMPHAL: Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, who has been sentenced to a year in prison for criticising chief minister N Biren Singh, on Saturday said the Manipur government is acting like "Hitler's regime".Wangkhem was charged under the National Security Act (NSA) after he was arrested a second time. An Imphal court had earlier released him after stating that his post could not be described as seditious."I will fight against such arbitrary detention till my last breath," Wangkhem said while being produced at the state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) here by jail authorities for his medical checkup."The people should wake and raise their voice against this autocratic rule, where there is no place for democracy. Detaining someone under NSA for criticising the government was something done during the Hitler regime," he said.On Friday, a division bench of Manipur High Court issued notices to the Centre, Manipur government and the Imphal West district magistrate seeking their response to Wangkhem's petition challenging his detention.

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