Hundreds detained in India for defying ban on protests against citizenship law

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Hundreds detained in India for defying ban on protests against citizenship law

By Devjyot Ghoshal

 

Muslims offer prayers during a protest against a new citizenship law, in Delhi, India, December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police detained hundreds of people in New Delhi and southern city of Bengaluru on Thursday and shut down the internet in some places as protests entered a second week over a new citizenship law that critics say undermines India’s secular constitution.

 

Citing law and order concerns following violent protests against the law during the past week, authorities imposed bans against public gatherings in parts of the capital and two big states - Uttar Pradesh in the north and Karnataka in the south.

 

Defying the bans, protesters held rallies at Delhi’s historic Red Fort and a town hall in Bengaluru, Karnataka’s state capital, but police swept in to round up people in the vanguard of those demonstrations as they tried to get underway.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-12-19

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Ironic that they are using a law from 1860's that was instituted by British colonial masters to arrest protestors now. Meet the new boss, same as the etc