The protests outside New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University on Thursda...
NEW DELHI - The protests outside New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University on Thursday started out small and relatively low-key - another show of anger by students who oppose a citizenship law they say discriminates against Muslims.
Waving the small handgun in the air, he taunted the demonstrators, and as both protesters and police converged towards him to try and calm the situation, he fired a single shot at a man later identified as Shadab Farooq.“As the protests started, there was no immediate threat so I was moving towards the police line and it was just like a regular day,” said Danish Siddiqui, Reuters’ chief photographer in India who took several pictures of the gunman.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has pushed through parliament, fast-tracks Indian citizenship for non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries. Minutes before firing, the gunman had uploaded posts onto his Facebook profile saying this will be his “final journey” and urging readers to “remember his family”.
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