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Mumbai, Dec 17 (EFE/EPA).- Protests against a recently passed legal amendment to grant citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants spread to several Indian universities early on Monday with fresh demonstrations by a large number of students.The Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi has turned into one of the epicenters of the student-led protests and on Sunday witnessed violent scenes when the police stormed the campus at dusk.On Monday several hundred students again gathered outside the university in New Delhi to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), passed by Parliament last week.The bill seeks to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsee (Zoroastrian) and Christian immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and has been heavily criticized for going against India's secular spirit by making religion a factor in obtaining citizenship. (Camera: DIVYAKANT SOLANKI).SHOT LIST: A PROTEST AGAINST THE CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT BILL (CAB) IN MUMBAI, INDIA
Anti-government protesters inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University consider their next move, as riot police surround the building and make arrests outside the campus. IMAGES
Pro-Palestinian protests continue on the campus of Columbia University. Since last Monday, dozens of students and alumni have come together to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel is waging war against militant group Hamas. They are demanding Columbia divest from companies with ties to Israel. IMAGES
Thousands of Indian farmers riding tractors resumed their push towards the capital New Delhi on Wednesday after failing to reach a deal with the government on their demands for higher crop prices. IMAGES
Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel block a highway to prevent farmers from marching towards New Delhi during a protest demanding minimum crop prices, at the Haryana-Punjab state border in Shambhu near Ambala about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the capital. IMAGES
About 30 Afghan women protest in front of Kabul University after authorities expelled students from the dormitories allegedly for breaking rules. "For the crime of studying, for the crime of seeing, they expelled us from the university," protesters chant. IMAGES
Mexico City, Sep 26 (EFE).- Thousands of protesters on Sunday joined the families of 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, who were forcibly disappeared in 2014, in a demonstration in the heart of Mexico City to demand justice on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.The march was led by families of the 43 students, with signs and T-shirts showing the faces of their missing loved ones and the slogan "we are missing 43". (Camera: ULISES ANDRADE).SHOT LIST: DEMONSTRATORS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF THE DISAPPEARED STUDENTS OF AYOTZINAPA PROTEST AT THE MAIN AVENUES OF MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
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