Raises concern over mass detentions before and during today’s large-scale demonstrations in Delhi
Police detain members of a student organisation as demonstrators attempt to march towards the Karnataka Election Commission office during a protest demanding the resignation of India’s Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged voter roll irregularities linked to the “special intensive revision” (SIR), in Bengaluru on October 10, 2026. Photo: AFP
The UN office for the high commissioner for human rights on Saturday urged India to immediate release people “arbitrarily detained” in protests against alleged misconduct by electoral authorities.
“We are concerned by reports of mass detentions in India of demonstrators, protest leaders, members of civil society organisations, lawyers and journalists, before and during today’s large-scale demonstrations in Delhi,” the office said in a statement.
“All those arbitrarily detained must be immediately and unconditionally released.”
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