A student. A food seller. A creative producer. A scientist. All they have in common is that they took part in the Citizenship Act protests ...
A student. A food seller. A creative producer. A scientist. All they have in common is that they took part in the Citizenship Act protests last winter. Months later, the Delhi Police called them in for questioning in its controversial riots case, which blames the communal violence that took place in India’s capital in February on a conspiracy by Citizenship Act protestors to overthrow the Narendra Modi government. Over 70 protestors have been interrogated in the case. Below is an account by one of them.
Read more about the case which has been described as a witchhunt against protestors here. Read more accounts of those who have been questioned in the case here.
His day job is that of a communications professional, but the young man had been active on Delhi’s protest circle for a while. He has a sizable social media following, thanks to his activism. On December 15, when Delhi Police barged inside the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia University after protests outside against the Citizenship Amendment Act led to clashes, a young student, who was beaten up by the police, called him seeking help. Then someone else called too. “They asked me to put out a call on my Facebook asking people...
