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Pictures: Anti-citizenship law protests intensify across India

Tumultuous & angry protests build across India against a citizenship law based on religion

Last updated: December 19, 2019 | 13:51

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Students hold placards during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, outside Reserve Bank of India in Kochi

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Demonstrators attend a protest against a new citizenship law, in Chandigarh

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Historian Ramchandra Guha (R) holds a placard against India's new citizenship law during protest held in spite of a curfew in Bangalore

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Swaraj Abhiyan founder and activist Yogendra Yadav is detained by police for defying prohibitory orders imposed by the Delhi Police in the area during an anti-Citizenship Act protest, at Red Fort, in New Delhi

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Left leaders D Raja, Sitaram Yechury, Nilotpal Basu, Brinda Karat and others raise slogans during an anti-Citizenship Act protest, at Red Fort, in New Delhi

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Demonstrators hold placards shout slogans during a protest against Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and police action on the students of Jamia Millia Islamia University, in Mumbai

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Police detain NSUI supporters during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Ahmedabad

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Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) supporters block a railway track during a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, in the state during 'Bihar Bandh', in Patna

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Protesters take part in a demonstration against India's new citizenship law in Chennai

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Samajwadi Party leaders protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Vidhan Sabha premises, in Lucknow

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Supporters of Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, attend a protest march against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and a new citizenship law, in Kolkata

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Protestors detained by police for defying prohibitory orders imposed by the Delhi Police in the area during an anti-Citizenship Act protest, at Red Fort, in New Delhi

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A protestor shouts slogans after being detained by police in Hyderabad

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Demonstrators hold placards and shout slogans during a protest against Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC, in Mumbai

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Protestors shout slogans from a bus after being taken into custody by police at the Town Hall during a demonstration held against India's new citizenship law in spite of a curfew in Bangalore

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Protesters shout slogans at a demonstration against Indias new citizenship law in New Delhi

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Demonstrators are detained during a protest against a new citizenship law, in Delhi

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A protestor shouts slogans from a bus after being taken into custody by police at the Town Hall during a demonstration held against India's new citizenship law in spite of a curfew in Bangalore

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People hold placards during a demonstration against Indias new citizenship law in New Delhi

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Protestors detained by police for defying prohibitory orders imposed in the area during an anti-Citizenship Act protest near Charminar, in Hyderabad

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Former Uttarkhand chief minister and Congress in-charge of Assam Harish Rawat along with President of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) Ripon Bora stage a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), in Guwahati

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