GENEVA, Dec 13 — The United Nations human rights office voiced concern today that India’s new citizenship law is “fundamentally discriminatory in nature” by excluding Muslims and called for it to be reviewed. Violent clashes erupted in Delhi between police and thousands of university...
People hold placards and shout slogans during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, a bill that seeks to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries, in Mumbai, India December 13, 2019. — Reuters pic
Violent clashes erupted in Delhi between police and thousands of university students on Friday protesting the enactment of the contentious new law. “We are concerned that India’s new Citizenship Act 2019 is fundamentally discriminatory in nature,” UN human rights spokesman Jeremy Laurence told a Geneva news briefing.
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