INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At least 14 people have now died and more than 4,000 have been arrested following further protests across India against a new citizenship
law.It applies to Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in the country illegally, but can demonstrate religious
persecution in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan - but it does not apply to Muslims.Image:Demonstrators offer prayers on
a road during a protest in AllahabadCritics say it is a violation of India's secular constitution and the latest effort by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist-led government to marginalise India's 200 million Muslims.Mr Modi has defended it as a humanitarian
measure.The victims were killed across the country - five in Assam, four in Uttar Pradesh - in the northeast and north of the country
respectively - while two died in southern Karnataka state.Image:Riot police officers patrol after a protest in DelhiPolice have banned
public gatherings in parts of the country's capital, New Delhi, and other cities for a third day and cut internet services in an attempt to
stop the demonstrations.But campaigners defied the ban, with thousands standing inside and on the steps of New Delhi's Jama Masijd - one of
India's largest mosques - following Friday afternoon prayers.They waved Indian flags and shouted slogans against the
government.Image:Demonstrators expressed their anger after Friday prayers at Jama Masjid in the old quarters of DelhiPolice had also banned
a proposed march from the mosque to an area near India's parliament, and a large number of officers were waiting outside the mosque.Officers
sprayed protesters with water cannon to prevent them from marching towards a monument in central Delhi where campaigners have been
gathering, around two miles away.An estimated 10,000 people protested outside New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University - where at the
weekend clashes took place in which students accused police of using excessive force.Image:Protesters pelt stones at police during clashes
in Gorakhpur, Uttar PradeshThey collected signatures for a petition demanding the new law be scrapped.Violence has broken out in several
towns in northern Uttar Pradesh state where police posts and vehicles were set on fire and rocks hurled at security forces.Police fired tear
gas and used batons to try and disperse people in various cities.It is also claimed surveillance video shows officers entering a hospital in
the southern city of Mangalore on Thursday night and using batons to disperse protesters who had taken shelter inside.The footage shows two
policemen trying to kick open a ward door and some people wearing masks running in a corridor.Image:The protests are against a law that does
not allow Muslim migrants to claim Indian citizenshipAuthorities say more than 100 people had been arrested and 3,305 detained since
Thursday.Police temporarily held 1,200 protesters in New Delhi and hundreds of others in other cities - but most were released later in the
