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Women Activists in India Still Face Detention and Police Intimidation After Anti-CAA Protests
India's citizenship protests
Court Lays Down Restrictions on the Right to Protest
“Shoot the Traitors”: Discrimination Against Muslims under India’s New Citizenship Policy | HRW
Women spearhead India's protest movement
Indian protesters pull from poetic tradition to resist Modi’s Hindu nationalism
Shaheen Bagh, India’s citizenship law protest site, Delhi’s newest food hub
Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Of Being With and Against the Law - Stories from Shaheen Bagh, 2019-2020
'Modi is afraid': women take lead in India's citizenship protests
‘Women Don’t Give Up.’ Why Female Protesters Are at the Forefront of India’s Resistance Movement
Women are leading protests against Modi's government in India — and it's not the first time women have been at the forefront of political...
Women Activists in India Still Face Detention and Police Intimidation After Anti-CAA Protests
New Delhi — “I never imagined that my identity as a Muslim would make me fear for my life,” said activist Zainab Siddiqui, 31.
India's citizenship protests
In December 2019, India's parliament passed a new citizenship law that has brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets in...
Court Lays Down Restrictions on the Right to Protest
Protests anodize democracy from arbitrary action, however the Court held that there is a need to balance this right with other concerns.
“Shoot the Traitors”: Discrimination Against Muslims under India’s New Citizenship Policy | HRW
Indians protesting against the new citizenship law and verification policies at Shaheen Bagh, a Muslim-majority neighborhood in Delhi that became the iconic...
Women spearhead India's protest movement
India's women have taken the lead in speaking out for people who will be affected by a controversial citizenship law.
Indian protesters pull from poetic tradition to resist Modi’s Hindu nationalism
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
Shaheen Bagh, India’s citizenship law protest site, Delhi’s newest food hub
The mainly Muslim neighbourhood, once the site of a months-long sit-in, now draws foodies from around the world.
Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Of Being With and Against the Law - Stories from Shaheen Bagh, 2019-2020
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'Modi is afraid': women take lead in India's citizenship protests
From activists and lawyers to students, housewives and grandmothers, both Hindu and Muslim, women across India have been at the forefront of the resistance to...
Shaheen Bagh sit-in — 2019–2020
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A prolonged, women-led sit-in protest in Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and NRC. Prominent leaders/supporters: Bilkis Bano and other local women, students and citizens who joined and supported the protest, several student volunteers and activists across the country.