Protests continue against citizenship law in India

(27 Dec 2019) Hundreds of people gathered after Friday prayers at several of New Delhi's mosques to protest India's controversial new citizenship law.
Wearing symbolic handcuffs, protesters chanted slogans calling the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government a "dictatorship".
They also demanded the immediate release of thousands of people who were detained in nationwide protests in the last two weeks.
23 people have died in the protests since the citizenship law was passed in parliament earlier this month.
The law 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.
But it does not apply to Muslims.
Modi has defended the new citizenship law as a humanitarian gesture for refugees.

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