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Lawyers clash with protesters in India over student’s arrest Lawyers clash with protesters in India over student’s arrest
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NEW DELHI — Dozens of lawyers, many with links to India’s ruling nationalist party, have clashed with protesters demanding the release of a student leader arrested under India’s colonial-era sedition laws. NEW DELHI — Dozens of lawyers, many with links to India’s ruling nationalist party, clashed Wednesday with protesters demanding the release of a student leader arrested under India’s colonial-era sedition laws.
Tuesday’s clashes took place a day ahead of a court hearing for Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the students’ union at the country’s premier Jawaharlal Nehru University. Kumar has been in prison since Friday. The clashes took place a day ahead of a court hearing for Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the students’ union at the country’s premier Jawaharlal Nehru University. Kumar has been in prison since Friday.
At least one reporter said that the lawyers beat him up and broke his cellphone. At least one reporter said that the lawyers beat him up and broke his cellphone while the police looked on.
Kumar is accused of sedition for participating in events where slogans against India allegedly were shouted along with criticism of the 2013 secret hanging of a Kashmiri separatist convicted of an attack on Parliament. The lawyers waved Indian flags and chanted slogans like “glory to Mother India” and “traitors leave India.” Many of the lawyers seen on television footage Wednesday had been involved in similar violence Monday when reporters and Kumar’s supporters were beaten outside the court premises.
The lawyers waved Indian flags and chanted patriotic slogans. The attacks and Kumar’s arrest highlighted allegations of increasing of intolerance in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014.
Kumar, a left-leaning campus leader, is accused of sedition for participating in events where slogans against India allegedly were shouted along with criticism of the 2013 secret hanging of a Kashmiri separatist convicted of an attack on Parliament.
His arrest took place after a student faction linked to the BJP filed a police complaint.
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Corrects that clashes took place Wednesday, not Tuesday.
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