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If you were moved by the Citizenship Act protests
If you went out to take part in them
If you felt hope
Please read these stories to see what people like you went through in Delhi this summer
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If you went out to take part in them
If you felt hope
Please read these stories to see what people like you went through in Delhi this summer
#Thread
“Every time the bell rang – and that was rare at that time because nobody would really come to the house – my friend would be like they [the police] have come for you... There were days I couldn’t go to bed because of my anxiety.” https://scroll.in/article/974899/the-creative-producer-for-me-a-revolution-is-less-romantic-now-the-consequences-are-more-real
The police would constantly grill him about the other protesters he had spoken to over the phone. “I said sir normally meri baat hui thi. We had general chats. He replied ‘Bhosdike chutiya samajh ke rakha hai kya humein? Do you think we're idiots?’” https://scroll.in/article/974898/the-civil-services-aspirant-police-threatened-that-they-would-send-me-to-remand
It felt like she had committed a thought crime. The interrogation “made me feel like my thoughts can be limited…Every liberating thought I had I never second guessed it but now I do.” https://scroll.in/article/974902/the-young-student-am-i-still-in-a-democracy-the-police-made-me-question-my-harmless-intentions
A senior officer then walked into the room and told him custodial torture in reality was four times worse than what was shown in films, he alleged. “He said that they had the right to do it [torture] under the sections that they were interrogating me.” https://scroll.in/article/975163/the-social-activist-police-said-they-had-the-right-to-torture-me-in-the-interrogation
“The police made me memorise a statement…what I had to say and all,” said a communications professional. "... The line that they had written down for me was ‘yeh sab Rahul Roy ne karwaya tha’ – all of it was orchestrated by Rahul Roy.” https://scroll.in/article/975103/the-communications-professional-i-thought-blocking-the-roads-was-stupid-but-not-sinister
He feels guilty about making the statement and implicating someone who he knows is innocent. “But I just did not have a choice. They would say: ‘If we charge you in the riots case your family would be destroyed..’” https://scroll.in/article/974901/the-food-seller-police-said-your-children-will-really-suffer-if-you-dont-speak-up
“I don’t think they [the government and the police] can crush this dissent because people who came out are thinking people,” he said. “They are manufacturing fear and thinking people will see through it.” https://scroll.in/article/974903/the-scientist-police-let-riots-happen-to-delegitimise-the-protest-now-they-are-criminalising-it
