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Protests rage in northeast India over citizenship bill

Students of Gauhati University take part in a torchlight procession against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 in Guwahati, Assam, India, yesterday. – EPA pic, December 10, 2019.

PROTESTORS in northeast India set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads today in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill. The legislation, set to go before the upper house tomorrow, will fast-track citizenship claims from refugees from three neighbouring countries, but not if they are Muslim.

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