Police ban public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day to counter growing protests against a new law that critics say marginalises Muslims.
Police have banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day and cut internet services to counter growing protests against a new law that critics say marginalises Muslims.
They waved Indian flags and shouted slogans against the Government and the citizenship law, which opponents contend threatens India's secular democracy in favour of a Hindu state. Police banned a proposed march from the mosque to an area near Parliament and sprayed protesters with water cannon blasts to prevent them from meeting up with more demonstrators about 4 kilometres away in central Delhi.
Much of the violence was in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where protesters set fire to police posts and vehicles and hurled rocks at security forces. The death toll rose to 14 after Avanish Awasthi, a spokesman for Uttar Pradesh, said late on Friday that six people had died during clashes between demonstrators and police.
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