via Human Rights Watch News — Click to expand Image Police detain protesters during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, Saturday, October 10, 2026. © 2026 AP Photo/Manish Swarup (New York) – Indian authorities are using abusive methods to crack down on thousands of peaceful protesters in New Delhi and other Indian cities, Human Rights Watch said today. The protests, led by the Gen Z Cockroach Janta Party, opposition parties, student organizations, and ci

Mass detentions of CJP protestors in Delhi expose the Modi government’s disregard for democratic rights, and supercharge comparisons with Indira Gandhi’s Emergency

India has launched an unprecedented crackdown on demonstrators after the election commission purged over 130 million people from voter rolls.

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In nearly a decade as a reporter in India, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar writes, she’s never seen anything like the crackdown on journalists doing their duty of covering the ‘cockroach’ demonstrations in the ...

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