India: Police Drag Priests, Nuns, Children into Buses During Protests Against Church Attacks in Delhi

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"Shame on the police. We were only trying to highlight the attacks on churches. The Prime Minister speaks on everything, why not on this?"

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: NDTV News | India
By  Deepshikha Ghosh | February 05, 2015

New Delhi: A large number of policemen today swooped down on a protest in Delhi against church attacks, and dragged activists, including priests and nuns into buses. Some alleged that they were attacked with batons.

Christian groups were protesting outside the Sacred Heart cathedral in central Delhi when the police arrived. Scores of protesters were manhandled and bundled into buses, their bags, shoes and other belongings left scattered on the road.

Father Dominic Emanuel, the spokesperson of the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, was also forced into a bus and taken away. An elderly woman, who lay on the road, was picked up by four policewomen and thrown into a bus.

"Shame on the police. We were only trying to highlight the attacks on churches. The Prime Minister speaks on everything, why not on this?" said a furious priest.

A disproportionately large police force outnumbered protesters and the commotion caused traffic jams in one of the capital's busiest commercial areas, situated not far from top government offices, the Parliament building and ministers' homes.

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