India: detention camps.

Byline: S. Malik - Sialkot

TO express reservations about India's faith-based law and its repressive enforcement, leaders from Japan and Bangladesh have cancelled their visits to India. Bangladesh's foreign minister AK Abdul Momen was due to visit New Delhi and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan was to visit Shillong on the invitation of Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was to attend annual summit with Narendra Modi in Guwahati on Dec 15.

India too cancelled a US visit following the rebuke by US religions watchdog body. The agitation has so far taken 23 lives, 18 in Uttar Pradesh, where Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept sealing properties of suspected protesters.

The government shrugged off the youth-led opposition as being limited to Muslims. But it could not explain a unique spectacle when non-Muslims formed a human shield around Muslims offering Friday prayers on the road outside the Jamia Millia Islamia campus.

The Indian government denies...

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