'At least two activists from Delhi’s Khureji Khas area, who were arrested from an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest site on Wednesday afternoon, have been physically tortured in judicial custody, according to their family members. They have also been booked for rioting, attempting to murder a police official, and possessing and using firearms, which their families and other protesters claim are false and unsubstantiated charges.
'Close to 100 students from the Pondicherry University were forcibly removed, shoved into vans and transported to another block of the institute for protesting against a fee hike. This action by the local police came on the 20th day of the demonstration and ahead of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu's visit to the University on Wednesday. Students of the University began protests on February 6 against the hike in fees for several courses offered by the institute. They alleged that the increase was exorbitant, with some postgraduate courses like Computer Science seeing a 100% hike in fees.
'As violence over the amended citizenship law continued uninterrupted for the third straight day in northeast Delhi, the Jaffrabad road blocked by protesters, most of them women, since Saturday night, has been cleared by Delhi Police, and shoot-at-sight order issued in some affected areas on Tuesday... The death toll in the violence climbed to thirteen and nearly 150 injured were admitted to the GTB hospital. Affected areas include Maujpur, Jaffrabad, Bhajanpura, Yamuna Vihar, Chand Bagh and Gokalpuri in Northeast Delhi...'
'...Karnataka minister BC Patil on Sunday advocated central legislation that enables authorities “to shoot at sight” those chanting pro-Pakistan slogans. Responding to reporters’ queries on the ongoing fracas over the chants, Patil said he would appeal to PM Narendra Modi to bring in a law so that anti-national elements are “killed on the spot”...'
'Clashes erupted in Northeast Delhi between supporters and opponents of the Citizenship Amendment Act on Monday. The Delhi Police tried to quell the protests, but one policeman and a civilian died during the violence. Another police official was injured. Pictures showed supporters of the Act jumping police barricades, pelting stones, throwing petrol bombs, attacking a Muslim man and damaging tents set up the anti-Citizenship Act demonstrators...'
'Sri Rama Sene leader and head of Karuneshwara mutt Siddalinga Swami on Saturday courted fresh controversy when he suggested that student protesters should “meet the same fate” as the slain journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. He was speaking at an event by the Yuva Viveka Bharata Sangha and a video of the event emerged on Saturday. "(They are) only 14-15 years, they are talking bad words about Modi and Shah. I think soon they should be made to go where Gauri Lankesh is," Siddalinga Swami said, as the crowd is heard cheering him on...'
'The city police detained yet another girl for having placard showing free Kashmir, free Dalit, free Muslim, free trans and free Adivasi during a protest called by Hindu Janajagruti Samiti at Town Hall on Friday afternoon. The SJ Park Police took Arudra into custody within minutes she walked to protest venue. The pro-Hindu organisation called a protest condemning the incident at Freedom Park on Thursday where a-19-year-girl Amulya Leona shouted slogan on pro-Pakistan on the stage...'
'A group of activists allegedly associated with pro-Hindu organisations pelted stones at the residence of Amulya Leona at Shivapura in Chikkamagalur district of Karnataka. She is accused of raising 'Pakistan zindabad' slogan' in an anti-CAA rally in Bengaluru. Koppa police informed that a group of people pelted stones and other items at the residence of Amulya late on Thursday. "We registered a case in this regard. Probe is on," a senior police officer said...'
'Activists and individuals who support the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act-National Register of Citizens-National Population Register protests said they got an email from Twitter Legal informing them that the micro-blogging giant has received a request that certain content be taken out. One such activist, S Q Masood, claimed that Twitter informed him that they received a legal request asking them to remove a tweet posted from his account.
'The Chennai police have filed an FIR against 38 leaders of Islamic organisations and 15,000 others for taking part in a massive rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Wednesday, without permission. The rally was taken out under the banner of the Federation of Tamil Nadu Islamic and Political Organisations on Wallajah Road despite a Madras High Court ban...'
