A local branch of the opposition Congress Party in the southern state of Kerala screened the banned BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. This screening is said to be amongst the many organized by the Congress, other opposition parties and free speech activists across India. India’s federal government declared the two part documentary as a propaganda and invoked an emergency law blocking it on YouTube and twitter last week.
The screening came a day after the New Delhi police, clad in riot gear and equipped with tear gas, arrested nearly a dozen students at Jamia Millia Islamia University ahead of a planned screening. students at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi said that power and internet had been cut at the campus in a bid to prevent them from screening the documentary.
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