India: Afghan refugees, students prevented from staging demonstration
Event- Country
- India
- Initial Date
- Oct 6, 2022
- Event Description
According to reports, the Indian police prevented the protest of Afghan citizens living in that country in response to the attack on the Kaaj Educational Center in west Kabul.
This protest was supposed to be held on Thursday, October 6, by a group of Afghan refugees and students living in India in New Delhi.
The protestors said that they had an official permit from the relevant departments to stage a protest, but the Indian police intervened and stopped it hours before it started.
The Indian police declared security concerns as the reason behind their decision on this matter.
After a cowardly and brutal attack on the Kaaj Education Center in west Kabul that killed and injured more than 100 innocent students, the “Stop the Genocide of Millennials” campaign has been launched in different countries by various groups of people across the world.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to Protest
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- Student
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 28.649016339326487
Longitude: 77.2254233751436
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 6 October 2022, a group of Afghan refugees and students were prevented by the police from staging a demonstration in response to the Hazara massacre in Delhi, India.