CAA protests deadlier than months-long Hong Kong protests 25 killed in India, 2 deaths reported in Hong Kong

New Delhi, Dec 22
With a death toll of 25, the ongoing protests against the amended Citizenship Act are already deadlier than the pro-democracy agitation in Hong Kong, now in its seventh month.
Eighteen people have died in Uttar Pradesh, two in Karnataka, and five in Assam, since the protests began weeks ago.
In Hong Kong, where demonstrators recently marked the six-month anniversary of their first clash with the police, two deaths have been reported.
A varsity student, 22, died on November 8 after falling one storey from the third floor of a parking lot "in unexplained circumstances near a police operation," the South China Morning Post reported.
On November 14, a senior citizen, 70, died after being struck by a brick during a clash between protesters and area locals. The police were reported to be treating his death as a murder.
Besides these deaths, "protesters have tracked at least nine cases of suicides that appear to be directly linked to the demonstrations" since June, The Guardian reported on October 22.
Back in India, initial protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act were particularly fierce in the North East, where locals fear a threat to their social and cultural identity.
But the demonstrations spread and grew in intensity, especially after the Delhi Police were accused of using excessive force against students at Jamia Millia Islamia, a public varsity, last weekend.
The amended Citizenship Act fast-tracks naturalisation for Pakistani, Afghan and Bangladeshi illegal immigrants (who currently live in India) from six non-Muslim minority religious groups who fled perscution in their home countries.
The Government denies the charge that the law is anti-Muslim and insists Indian Muslims need not worry.
India Today