Indian police ban growing protests of citizenship law

— Police banned protests in New Delhi and several state capitals Thursday in an effort to contain growing dissatisfaction over a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens the secular nature of Indian democracy.

Protesters said they will go ahead with a demonstration at New Delhi’s iconic Red Fort and surrounding historic district. The new law applies to Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally but can demonstrate religious persecution in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. It does not apply to Muslims. People fear it will be applied countrywide and target the country’s Muslim population.

India is also building a detention center for some of the tens of thousands of people the courts are expected to ultimately determine have entered illegally. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interior minister, Amit Shah, has pledged to roll out the exercise nationwide.

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