India's Muslims and activists face mass arrests, beatings amid citizenship-law unrest.

LUCKNOW -- When Sadaf Jafar headed out with hundreds of others on Dec. 19 to join a demonstration against India's contentious new citizenship law, she told her children she would be home that evening. She never made it back. The 43-year-old actress and activist had been livestreaming video from the protest site, a bustling crossroads in Lucknow, on her Facebook page. But as the rally descended into chaos and Jafar pleaded with police to detain the violent protesters, officers instead grabbed her, the video shows before ending abruptly.

Perturbed by Jafar's disappearance, a family friend and...

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