Citizenship Act protests: 'I wait in silence as my world falls apart' - BBC News

Rikat Hashmi, a Muslim student in Delhi, explains why she feels anxious about her future as an Indian Muslim.

Like many Muslims in India, I now spend my days wondering what the future holds for us.

Will I be denied a job because of my religion? Will I be evicted from my home? Will I be lynched by a mob? Will this fear ever end?

"Be patient," my mother tells me after a night of violence at my university campus - Jamia Millia Islamia - in the capital Delhi.

Students were allegedly beaten up, tear-gassed in the library and bathrooms, and terrorised to stop their protest against a controversial new citizenship law.

This law - the Citizenship Amendment Act - paves the way to citizenship for persecuted people from three countries, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. But it offers amnesty only to non-Muslim illegal immigrants.

Muslims have been excluded, and it's this discrimination that is at the heart of the students' protests.

But why did the police launch an assault on them?

They say it was because students torched vehicles and provoked a response, but where is the evidence against us?

Police say there was no firing, but what of those who lie wounded in hospitals?

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I am studying for a degree in dentistry at Jamia university, and I've witnessed several peaceful protests during my time here.

I wasn't part of the protest on Sunday, which later turned violent. But I was a victim of the aftermath as police launched a widespread attacks on students.

I remember howling in fear as the police approached our hostel. We switched off the lights and tried to hide. The night passed and luckily, we were saved. But here's what is became clear: it didn't matter if you had voiced your criticism or not, because we were the target. We, the Muslims of India.

I remember waking up to the sounds of various Hindu devotional songs as a child.

We were the only Muslim family in a predominantly Hindu neighbourhood in the eastern state of Orissa.

We always celebrated festivals together - they would apply henna on my hands during Eid, and my siblings and I went to their houses to celebrate the triumph of good over evil during the festival of Navaratri.

Some of my Hindu friends would often come over to enjoy biryani, a popular dish of rice, meat and spices that is traditionally served in Muslim households.

There was no mosque in the vicinity, but my father wasn't too bothered by this since he wasn't a practising Muslim. My mother continued offering namaz (prayers) five times a day at our home.

I attended a convent school with a very large number of Hindus, and there was never a moment of religious difference.

Only once did a friend ask me about the myth that Muslims don't shower everyday, and I laughed it off. "We - I - definitely take a shower every day," I said.

Religion was a part of our lives, but I was never made aware of my identity as a Muslim. Until now.

Forces are out to divide us and I'm not sure if I can relive such experiences again.

We are increasingly being cast as meat-eaters, as rapists corrupting society, as terrorists defending Pakistan, as lovers converting Hindus, and as minorities who will take over the country.

In reality, we are on our way to becoming second-class citizens who must learn to live in fear.

In one of his tweets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for calm during the protests against the citizenship law. He said: "This is the time to maintain peace, unity and brotherhood."

A day before, in front of thousands of people and dozens of cameras, he had said: "People who are setting fire [to property] can be seen on TV... They can be identified by the clothes they are wearing."

He didn't elaborate but this seemingly veiled attack on my religion has, ironically, only made me more religious.

I don't mean this in the physical sense. I was 16 when I started wearing the hijab.

I had moved to the northern state of Uttar Pradesh to study Aligarh Muslim University, and I came across many young women wearing the headscarf.

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It was an inspiring moment for me, and I decided to make it a part of my personality.

Today, at 22, I feel compelled to stand up and fight against the misinformation that is brazenly spread against my religion and my country's constitution. I want to voice criticism against discriminatory policies and the faltering economy.

But each time, I am rejected as "anti-national" or "anti-Hindu" and forced back into the shadows. I am told that I am "raking up the Hindu-Muslim issue" if I express my opinion against the government's policies.

We are living in a dangerous new era where religion and nationalism are intertwined.

Sometimes, I find people staring at me because of my hijab as I walk down the street

It may be an irrational fear, but the atmosphere of Islamophobia is certainly spreading. I want to call this out, but it's happening within full view of the media and the government.

The ruling party blatantly espouses a Hindu nationalist ideology and some laws are now based on religious discrimination. Vigilante groups are being empowered to carry out hate crimes against Muslims.

In these extremely unfortunate circumstances, voices of dissent are slowly fading out.

This isn't the inclusive India I grew up in, and we deserve better.

We, the 200 million Muslims of India.

The anxiety is building. We talk in whispers about how things could get worse with another law in the making that would require the entire country to prove their citizenship.

The home minister has promised the nation it will be rolled out before the next election in 2024.

But there's still hope.

Voices of support from across the country are rising above hatred and vile bigotry. Maybe it will inspire those who stand against us to re-emerge with reason and humanity?

For now, I wait in silence as my world falls apart.

I have been evacuated from the hostel and forced to go on vacation. My education has taken a hit. I can't travel to see my family as they live in another city where protests are boiling over.

So I park myself at the home of a local guardian, and recall my mother's words: "Be patient and hold on with all your strength."

As told to Pooja Chhabria, by Rikat Hashmi.

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2019-12-21 02:00:37Z
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India extends controls on protests after day of deadly violence - CNN

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in at least 15 cities across the country, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata on Thursday in a show of nationwide public anger against the law considered by many to be unconstitutional and discriminatory against Muslims.

At least two people died in the protests, which saw violent pitched battles between police and protesters in several cities, including Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, and Lucknow. Police fired tear gas, water cannons and used batons against protesters who pelted stones, vandalized and set fire to buildings and buses. Thousands of people were arrested.

Following Thursday's violence, police in the country's largest and most populous state Uttar Pradesh, where one person died in violent protests, have enforced a law banning public gatherings of four or more people for the next 15 days.

The colonial-era restrictions -- known as Section 144 -- will be imposed across the entire state, Avnish Awasthi, senior official in the Uttar Pradesh Home Department told CNN.

Internet services in the state capital Lucknow will also remain suspended until Saturday evening, after protesters set fire to buildings and clashed with police on Thursday.

"Yesterday, internet connectivity in 73 districts was shut down," Awasthi said. "For the rest of the districts in the states, district officials are making individual decisions."

In the capital New Delhi, section 144 remained in place in three key protest areas Friday, police said.

On Thursday at least one telecoms provider said it was directed to suspend services in six areas of the capital during the protests. It was the first time mobile and internet services had been cut in the capital.

Violence, deaths and arrests

On Thursday, two people died from injuries sustained during a protest in the city of Mangalore, in the southern state of Karnataka, a senior doctor at the Highland Hospital told CNN.

One more person died from firearm injuries in Lucknow city, the capital of northern Uttar Pradesh state, according to a senior doctor at the King George Medical University in the city.

Additional Director General of Uttar Pradesh police, P.V. Ramasastry, told CNN that the death in Lucknow was not directly related to the protests.

Some 3,600 people were arrested as a preventative measure in Uttar Pradesh, police said. In Lucknow, 112 preventive arrests were made while 50 people were booked and arrested under various charges.

In the capital New Delhi, 1,200 people were detained for violating a ban on public gatherings. Police told CNN on Friday those people have been released without charge.

Despite the bans, further protests are planned on Friday at the capital's Jamia Milia Islamia University -- which was the scene of violent clashes between police and protesters on Sunday, and a march from the Jama Masjid -- one of the largest mosques in India -- to the iconic India Gate, in central Delhi.

At the center of the unrest is the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed into law last week. The law that promises to fast-track citizenship for non-Muslim religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who arrived before 2015.

The government, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said the law will provide safe haven for religious minorities who fled persecution in their home countries. Critics say it undermines the country's secular constitution as it bases citizenship on a person's religion and would further marginalize India's 200-million strong Muslim community.

The Indian government had sought to quell any unrest over the law's passing by banning protests and shutting down the internet and mobile services in several parts of the country.

Many of who marched told CNN the government was using the bans on public gatherings to muzzle the voices of Indian people in the world's largest democracy.

"I have my freedom to protest. It is my fundamental right," said New Delhi student Sidharth Singh, 23. "This is not democracy. Why does the government think it is higher than the constitution?"

Thursday's deaths brings the total to at least seven, after five people were confirmed to have died in ongoing protests in the northeastern state of Assam.

Protests in the northeast are different from the rest of the country, however. Many indigenous groups there fear that giving citizenship to large numbers of immigrants would change the unique ethnic make-up of the region and their way of life, regardless of religion.

Troops were deployed and and internet shut down in several northeastern states amid the protests. On Friday senior Assam official G.P. Singh told CNN, "The mobile internet has been restored" there.

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2019-12-20 10:39:00Z
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LIVE: Boris Johnson says 'no more Montagues and Capulets' as MPs debate Brexit withdrawal agreement - The Telegraph

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2019-12-20 09:40:01Z
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India extends controls on protests after day of deadly violence - CNN

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in at least 15 cities across the country, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata on Thursday in a show of nationwide public anger against the law considered by many to be unconstitutional and discriminatory against Muslims.

At least two people died in the protests, which saw violent pitched battles between police and protesters in several cities, including Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, and Lucknow. Police fired tear gas, water cannons and used batons against protesters who pelted stones, vandalized and set fire to buildings and buses. Thousands of people were arrested.

Following Thursday's violence, police in the country's largest and most populous state Uttar Pradesh, where one person died in violent protests, have enforced a law banning public gatherings of four or more people for the next 15 days.

The colonial-era restrictions -- known as Section 144 -- will be imposed across the entire state, Avnish Awasthi, senior official in the Uttar Pradesh Home Department told CNN.

Internet services in the state capital Lucknow will also remain suspended until Saturday evening, after protesters set fire to buildings and clashed with police on Thursday.

"Yesterday, internet connectivity in 73 districts was shut down," Awasthi said. "For the rest of the districts in the states, district officials are making individual decisions."

In the capital New Delhi, section 144 remained in place in three key protest areas Friday, police said.

On Thursday at least one telecoms provider said it was directed to suspend services in six areas of the capital during the protests. It was the first time mobile and internet services had been cut in the capital.

Violence, deaths and arrests

On Thursday, two people died from injuries sustained during a protest in the city of Mangalore, in the southern state of Karnataka, a senior doctor at the Highland Hospital told CNN.

One more person died from firearm injuries in Lucknow city, the capital of northern Uttar Pradesh state, according to a senior doctor at the King George Medical University in the city.

Additional Director General of Uttar Pradesh police, P.V. Ramasastry, told CNN that the death in Lucknow was not directly related to the protests.

Some 3,600 people were arrested as a preventative measure in Uttar Pradesh, police said. In Lucknow, 112 preventive arrests were made while 50 people were booked and arrested under various charges.

In the capital New Delhi, 1,200 people were detained for violating a ban on public gatherings. Police told CNN on Friday those people have been released without charge.

Despite the bans, further protests are planned on Friday at the capital's Jamia Milia Islamia University -- which was the scene of violent clashes between police and protesters on Sunday, and a march from the Jama Masjid -- one of the largest mosques in India -- to the iconic India Gate, in central Delhi.

At the center of the unrest is the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed into law last week. The law that promises to fast-track citizenship for non-Muslim religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who arrived before 2015.

The government, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said the law will provide safe haven for religious minorities who fled persecution in their home countries. Critics say it undermines the country's secular constitution as it bases citizenship on a person's religion and would further marginalize India's 200-million strong Muslim community.

The Indian government had sought to quell any unrest over the law's passing by banning protests and shutting down the internet and mobile services in several parts of the country.

Many of who marched told CNN the government was using the bans on public gatherings to muzzle the voices of Indian people in the world's largest democracy.

"I have my freedom to protest. It is my fundamental right," said New Delhi student Sidharth Singh, 23. "This is not democracy. Why does the government think it is higher than the constitution?"

Thursday's deaths brings the total to at least seven, after five people were confirmed to have died in ongoing protests in the northeastern state of Assam.

Protests in the northeast are different from the rest of the country, however. Many indigenous groups there fear that giving citizenship to large numbers of immigrants would change the unique ethnic make-up of the region and their way of life, regardless of religion.

Troops were deployed and and internet shut down in several northeastern states amid the protests. On Friday senior Assam official G.P. Singh told CNN, "The mobile internet has been restored" there.

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2019-12-20 07:58:00Z
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What does Trump's impeachment mean for Ukraine? - Al Jazeera English

Kyiv, Ukraine - Many politicians, public figures and average Ukrainians have been flattered and even proud that their ex-Soviet nation has become the focal point of a political maelstrom that has engulfed US President Donald Trump and may yet terminate his presidency.

Almost six years after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and the separatist uprising in the southeastern Donbass region that has claimed more than 13,000 lives and become Europe's hottest armed conflict, many Ukrainians felt abandoned by the West. After all, pro-Western protesters won two "revolutions" in 2004 and 2014, overthrowing a pro-Russian president and enshrining Ukraine's intention to join the European Union and NATO in their constitution.

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"We bled to stop Russia's aggression, only to see how Germany makes gas deals with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Trump praises him," Olena Zabuzhko, a real estate agent in Kyiv, told Al Jazeera. Her business was affected by the crippling economic crisis that followed the annexation and disruption of economic ties with Russia.

But Trump's impeachment instils fear in her.

"We're done. If Trump stays in power, he'll hit us hard. If Democrats win, they will be against us, too, because we almost agreed to investigate [former US Vice President Joe] Biden's son," the-48 year-old Zabuzhko said.

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But one former Ukrainian diplomat and government adviser with close ties to Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, adamantly opposes this viewpoint.

Andriy Telizhenko is now a conservative political consultant who helped Giuliani organise his brief trip to Kyiv in early December.

"There will be no political retaliation against Ukraine," he told Al Jazeera. "Trump and the White House do want to work with Ukraine."

'Toxic'

The impeachment inquiry has made Ukraine politically "toxic" and imperilled both its fight against Russia and efforts to resuscitate its economy, some analysts say.

It is "the most expensive negative advertising for an individual nation in modern history", Alexey Kushch of the Growford Institute think-tank told Al Jazeera.

"There is a plume of toxicity that has not just spread to the political elites in Kyiv, but also covered all of Ukraine," he added.

House Democrats accuse Trump of pressuring Kyiv to investigate work done by Joe Biden's son, Hunter, for Burisma, a natural gas company reportedly implicated in multiple corruption schemes. They say Trump froze $390 million in military aid to Ukraine as leverage, while Kyiv badly needed US arms, ammunition and military equipment to continue the trench warfare in Donbass.

The inquiry is centred on a July 25 phone conversation between Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymir Zelenskyy, a former comedian and political novice whose anti-establishment platform helped him win the April 21 election with 73 percent of the vote, and subsequently gain near-absolute control over the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's lower house of Parliament, in a snap July election.

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Although the Zelenskyy-appointed prosecutor-general Ruslan Ryaboshapka did not begin any investigations into Biden's work for Burisma, Zelenskyy appears not to have objected to Trump's alleged pressure, and has not criticised his reported demands in public.

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"President Zelenskyy is trying to manoeuvre, but in the end, he chose a neutral, pro-Trump position," Kyiv-based political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky told Al Jazeera.

Former Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin claimed that Zelenskyy's predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, fired him in 2016 - allegedly following demands made by Joe Biden. Shokin claimed Biden resisted his attempts to investigate Burisma, where Hunter Biden was working at the time.

For months, Zelenskyy's team and many key government officials have rejected Western media requests to comment on the Trump investigation, choosing not to antagonise either Republicans or Democrats.

His government faces dire domestic problems such as heavy military spending, brain-drain and an unresolved "gas war" with Russia over the transit of natural gas to Europe.

To deliver on Zelenskyy's largely populist election pledges, his government came up with a string of reforms that include privatisations and the lifting of a moratorium on farmland sales. Last year, Ukraine's GDP per capita was about $3,000, while neighbouring Poland's was five times higher.

And yet, the president's biggest challenge may be dealing with the corruption that ranked Ukraine number 120 on the worldwide list of 180 nations reviewed by Transparency International, a graft watchdog.

"What Ukraine should do is to fight corruption," Giuliani's ally, Telizhenko, said. "That's how we could get a better relationship not only with the United States, but with the West."

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2019-12-20 07:01:00Z
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Pakistan court calls for ex-leader Musharraf to be hanged, even if he dies before serving death sentence - Fox News

Pakistan is going one grisly step further in its vendetta against former President Pervez Musharraf.

A special court on Thursday – days after sentencing Musharraf to death in a treason case – is now calling for him to be hanged outside parliament if he dies before he could serve his sentence, Reuters reported.

“His corpse (should) be dragged to D-Chowk, Islamabad, Pakistan, and be hanged for three days,” the court said in a statement, referring to a traffic circle in the country’s capital.

In this 2013 file photo, Pakistan's former President and military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, addresses his party supporters at his house in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP)

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Musharraf, who has been undergoing medical treatment in Dubai, was sentenced to death in absentia Tuesday on charges of high treason stemming from his decision to suspend the constitution and detain judges in 2007. His lawyers have said they will appeal the verdict.

Legal experts told Reuters that the directive issued by the court Thursday is unconstitutional and mainly symbolic.

It reportedly came after Pakistan's government reviewed the death sentence and found “gaps and weaknesses” in it, according to Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan.

Akhtar Sheikh, a lawyer for former Pakistani military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf, talks to media outside a court following a court decision, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Dec. 17, 2019. The Pakistani court sentenced Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the state of emergency he imposed in 2007 while in power, officials said. Musharraf who is apparently sick and receiving treatment in Dubai where he lives was not present in the courtroom. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Musharraf is said to be very ill and unlikely to travel home to face the sentence. Pakistan and the UAE have no extradition treaty and Emirati authorities are unlikely to arrest Musharraf.

If he were to return, however, Musharraf would have the right to challenge his conviction and sentence in court.

Musharraf took power in a 1999 coup but was forced to step down in 2008. The charges have been in place since 2013 and he was allowed to leave on bail in 2016 to seek medical treatment abroad.

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In an infamous purge in 2007, Musharraf imposed a state of emergency and placed several key judges under house arrest in the capital, Islamabad, and elsewhere in Pakistan.

But the move to suspend the constitution backfired and led to widespread protests by the country's powerful legal community. Musharraf left the country soon after.

Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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2019-12-19 14:03:11Z
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Vladimir Putin says Trump was impeached for 'made-up reasons' - CNN

The House of Representatives voted almost exactly along party lines Wednesday to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump was the third president in US history to be impeached, and he now faces a trial in the Senate that is expected to start next month.

"Regarding the continuation of our dialogue till the end of Trump's presidency, you make it sound as if it's already coming to an end," Putin said answering a question about whether Russia has a strategy for continuing the dialogue with the US until the end of Trump's presidency.

"I actually really doubt that it is ending, it still has to go through Senate where as far as I know the Republicans hold the majority so it's unlikely they will want to remove the representative of their party for some made-up reasons."

Putin's defense of Trump is in line with the unusually-warm relationship the two leaders have formed since 2017. Last year, Trump sided with the Russian President when he declined to endorse the US government's assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying instead that he believed Putin's denial that his government meddled. Trump has also dismissed credible allegations that Putin uses violence against his opponents, saying in 2015: "I haven't seen any evidence that he killed anybody, in terms of reporters."

Putin added on Thursday: "This is just the continuation of the internal political battle, one party that lost the elections, the Democrats, and are now trying to find new ways by accusing Trump of collusion with Russia. But then it turns out there was no collusion, this can't be the basis for the impeachment. Now they came up with some pressure on Ukraine, I don't know what is the [pressure] but this is up to your congressmen."

In Russia, the impeachment of Trump has drawn less attention than Putin's press conference, which is a major media event for the country. The annual event ran over four hours, with the Russian president taking questions on a range of domestic and international questions.

The question was asked by Dmitry Simes, head of the Washington-based think tank Center for the National Interest, mentioned in the Mueller report for providing advice to Trump's campaign on Russia.

The two articles of impeachment passed against Trump charged him with abuse of power for withholding nearly $400 million in US military aid and a White House meeting while pressuring Ukraine's president to investigate a potential political rival, and obstruction of Congress for thwarting the House's investigative efforts.

CNN's Devan Cole contributed to this report.

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2019-12-19 13:49:00Z
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