India’s divisive citizenship law sparks global protests

More than 20 people have been killed in past in police violence in past one week, as protests against CAA intensifies across India.

December 24, 2019 by Peoples Dispatch

Recently, the far-right Indian government passed a controversial citizenship law, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Progressive sections in India have called this law as divisive and fascist. More than 20 people have been killed in past in police violence in past one week, as protests against CAA intensifies across India. Protests against CAA and police brutality were also held in many countries across the world. We take a look at these global protests in solidarity with the struggle in India against attempts by the government to “divide the country on the basis of religion”.