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Protests turn violent in India over controversial citizenship law

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 Protests continued unabated across India on Tuesday over a controversial new law that offers citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from several neighboring nations.




Riot police fired tear gas on the streets of a mostly-Muslim area in New Delhi, as throngs of demonstrators hurled bricks and set fire to a police booth and motorcycles. There were unconfirmed reports of injuries among protesters and police officers.



The demonstrations began last week when India's parliament, controlled by the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, passed an amendment to the Citizenship Act after hours of contentious debate. The amendment provides a path to Indian citizenship for religious minorities from the predominantly Muslim nations of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who have entered India illegally. The original act, initially passed in 1955, had previously prohibited illegal migrants from obtaining citizenship.



Proponents of the amendment say it will grant sanctuary to those fleeing religious persecution, while critics argue it is anti-Muslim and unconstitutional. A number of human rights activists and lawyers have already begun the process of challenging the constitutionality of the Citizenship Act in courts, saying the amendment seeks to enshrine religious discrimination into law and de-legitimize Muslim citizenship in a predominately Hindu country.



The amendment was signed into law on Dec. 12, sparking nationwide protests that turned violent over the weekend.

Riot police clashed with student-led protesters at the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi on Sunday. Officers allegedly stormed the campus, broke into the library and other rooms, fired tear gas and dragged protesters out to assault them. Dozens of students were injured, while at least 40 were detained overnight and subsequently released the next morning.

This is an Artefact Blog created for the Master’s dissertation on Communicative influence of social media images on collective actions: A content analysis of images enhanced tweets and Facebook messages in reaction to the brutality of George Floyd. Using qualitative content analysis on a data set of 50 initial tweets and information on microblogging services of Twitter and Facebook in reactions to images of George Floyd's brutality by Minneapolis police officers, and about the preceding protests; this study examined the sentiment occurring in reaction to relevant tweets (and retweets) given the feature of "retweeting," while establishing the elicited negative /positive reactions for collective actions.

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