Joining the protests across campuses in India, more than 400 students and alumni from American institutions — including Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Stanford and Tufts — have expressed their solidarity with students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University and the Aligarh Muslim University who faced a police crackdown over the weekend.
The students and alumni asked Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday to take immediate steps to curb ‘police brutality or resign’, condemning the violence as a “gross violation of human rights under the Constitution of India and International Human Rights Law”, according to a statement.
Noting that the right to protest was “a cornerstone of a constitutional democracy” and was safeguarded as a fundamental right under Article 19 of the Constitution, the statement expressed deep concern about the
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The students and alumni demanded that police stop the violence and withdraw completely from university premises. They called for an independent investigation of the police action.