Indians gather for a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act after Friday prayers outside Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to try to stop growing protests against a new citizenship law that have so far left eight people dead and more than 1,200 others detained.
NEW DELHI — Three people died during clashes between demonstrators and police in northern India on Saturday, raising the nationwide death toll in protests against a new citizenship law to 17. O.P. Singh, the chief of police in Uttar Pradesh state, said the latest deaths have increased the death toll in the state to nine. “The number of fatalities may increase,” Singh said.Police said that over 600 people in the state have been taken into custody since Friday as part of “preventive action.”
Protesters are angered by a new law that allows Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally to become citizens if they can show they were persecuted because of their religion in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The law does not apply to Muslims. Critics have slammed it as a violation of the country’s secular constitution and label it the latest effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-led government to marginalize India’s 200 million Muslims. Modi has defended the law as a humanitarian gesture.
So butchering in India is gaining enough devilish zeal!
Hey NATO ,UN ,UNHumanRights . Are you alive, awoken or just died? We see you how you hang Saddam ? What you did with Gaddafi? Are you there for us, or we have to fight it alone? We know ur real intentions, but don't worry. As we did in past, we can do it even now.
The death toll is telling me the protesters’ lives are cheap and the holy cows are more precious than humans. narendramodi
I see many expert commentetors who i think would not have any idea about CAA/CAB. So it's not hatered for new law, it's hatered for Modi/India. ISupportCAA_NRC IndiaAgainstViolence
Why does the media not cover this like Hong Kong? Far more people have died here.
用人命玩政治游戏，卑鄙！
Quite frankly a country can decide for itself what citizenship laws it wants to institute.
India is practicing sectarian cleansing against Indian Muslims. CitizenshipAmendmentAct
these muslims are infiltrator . they living in india without legal process so they are deported back to bangladesh, pakistan and myanmar
If they aren't willing to accept persecuted Muslims, it is unjust. People are people, regardless of their religious affiliation, and suffering crosses all religion.
India dooms under PMOIndia Modi. This guy is a warlord & has so far led to a major bloody conflagration against Muslims.
Fascist regime of india leading by butcher of Gujarat narendramodi must stop these chaos and MUST hold accountable for murdering innocent people of India... My heart goes out for peaceful Hindo protesters ..
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