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

Police in New Delhi broke up the longest-running 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 sit-in 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