Footage from 1930s when Britishers were beating Indians during Freedom Struggle.
P.S No parallel is to be drawn between this footage and what transpired today at Jantar Mantar.🙏
YouTuber @dhruv_rathee detained from his Gurugram residence by Delhi Police on the morning of October 10, just ahead of the the @Cockroachisback-led protest at Jantar Mantar, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke mourns the loss of his grandmother in Maharashtra amid detention in Delhi over a protest against the Chief Election Commissioner.
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In today’s India Edition, Menaka Doshi reports on heavy security in New Delhi ahead of a weekend of protests and Mihir Mishra examines the tussle between the Mumbai airport operator and airlines. https://t.co/IQeJlDuxJf
Indian police detain founder of youth-led Cockroach Janta Party, Abhijeet Dipke, ahead of protest demanding resignation of the country’s chief election commissioner, the party says
New Delhi woke to a tense Saturday as thousands of police and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the capital ahead of a demonstration by the Cockroach Janta Party over a contentious revision of India’s voter rolls https://t.co/PbcAzoZscJ
Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has said that Indians "are living under an absolute dictatorship ruled by Modi" following the arrest of the Cockroach Janta Party founder.
🟠 LIVE updates: https://t.co/GqvtCKVugK
Police have arrested the leader of India’s “Cockroach” student protest movement before a march in New Delhi.
Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta party, was among thousands of protesters detained as authorities deployed a sweeping security crackdown across the Indian capital on Saturday.
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Police in Delhi pulled Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke off a flight as he shouted, 'We're not afraid of you,' ahead of a rally demanding the resignation of India's election chief https://t.co/E4Wn3Oc1iI
#India: CPJ calls on @DelhiPolice to immediately release all detained journalists and media workers, return their equipment, investigate reports of physical abuse, and allow the press to cover the ongoing protests in New Delhi and the police response without interference.
CPJ is closely monitoring the situation and has confirmed the detention of Newslaundry reporters Ashwine Kumar Singh, Astha Savyasachi, and Anmol Pritam, and Scroll reporter Ayush Tiwari. We are working to identify other detained journalists and media workers. Newslaundry has also reported that police seized its reporters’ phones, while other reports indicate that journalists were physically manhandled.
A free and independent press is essential to a democracy. CPJ urges authorities in India to respect journalists’ and media workers’ ability to report in the public interest and to ensure their safety while doing so.
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