A Silent Crackdown
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Apoorvanand interview: ‘They are telling Muslims, don’t dare do this. You have no right to protest’
‘Why are intellectuals also the targets? Because intellectuals are the only section of the society who have stood with the minorities.’
Vijayta Lalwani
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Special report: A silent crackdown sweeps through Delhi in the guise of probing riots conspiracy
The police have interrogated over 70 anti-Citizenship Act protestors. Some allege they were abused, threatened, coerced into giving false statements.
Arunabh Saikia & Vijayta Lalwani
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The young student: ‘Am I still in a democracy? The police made me question my harmless intentions’
She said the police made her feel like she had committed a thought crime.
Vijayta Lalwani
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The food seller: ‘Police said your children will really suffer if you don’t speak up’
The resident of North East Delhi caved under pressure and gave a false statement implicating a local protest organiser.
Arunabh Saikia
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The creative producer: ‘For me, a revolution is less romantic now. The consequences are more real’
Fear set in even before the police questioned him. He was unable to sleep.
Arunabh Saikia
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The social activist: ‘Police said they had the right to torture me in the interrogation’
He had set up a protest site in North East Delhi. The police wanted him to reveal who had funded it.
Vijayta Lalwani
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The scientist: ‘Police let riots happen to delegitimise the protest. Now they are criminalising it’
Dinesh Abrol said he confronted the police during his questioning: ‘You people were not there when you should have been.’
Arunabh Saikia
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The communications professional: ‘I thought blocking the roads was stupid, but not sinister’
The police threatened to charge him under UAPA if he did not give a statement.
Arunabh Saikia
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The civil services aspirant: ‘Police abused me and threatened to send me to remand’
The Citizenship Act protests were the young man’s first brush with dissent.
Arunabh Saikia
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