Coronavirus outbreak: Indian police break up citizenship protests as lockdown enforced

Police in New Delhi broke up the longestrunning protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s citizenship law on Tuesday, citing a ban on public gatherings because of the coronavirus outbreak. Dozens of people, many of them women, had been staging a sitin protest since early December on a street in the Shaheen Bagh neighbourhood, which has become a focal point for opposition to the law seen as discriminating against Muslims. Ahead of the government s nationwide lockdown announced on Tuesday by M