>The protests began in December when the government passed a law that uses religion as a criterion for determining whether illegal migrants in India can be fast-tracked for citizenship. The measure favors members of all South Asia’s major religions except Islam, India’s second largest faith. Muslims worry that the law will be coupled with a citizenship test and used to strip them of their Indian nationality.
They're very different situations, but the common thread is people feeling their rights are not being respected, and protesting that.
It's pretty well discussed among those who actually care about free expression and/or censorship circumvention.
>The protests began in December when the government passed a law that uses religion as a criterion for determining whether illegal migrants in India can be fast-tracked for citizenship. The measure favors members of all South Asia’s major religions except Islam, India’s second largest faith. Muslims worry that the law will be coupled with a citizenship test and used to strip them of their Indian nationality.
They're very different situations, but the common thread is people feeling their rights are not being respected, and protesting that.
It's pretty well discussed among those who actually care about free expression and/or censorship circumvention.