This is what a Jamia student told us over the phone:
"Girls have been shot at, girls are stuck inside hostels, the police has turned off the lights."
"A friend called me from J&K girls hostel and she said someone was asking for a dupatta because a girl had been shot."
"Girls have been shot at, girls are stuck inside hostels, the police has turned off the lights."
"A friend called me from J&K girls hostel and she said someone was asking for a dupatta because a girl had been shot."
"They were trying to take her to the hospital, but they are trapped, they can’t take her."
My colleague @sruthisagar who is outside the campus can hear continuous sounds of tear gas shelling and loud screams emerging from inside.
@sruthisagar .@sruthisagar also saw people being detained outside the campus. For a brief moment, crowds had amassed down the road from the police. It seemed like a face-off was about to happen. But the crowds dispersed, thankfully, and a confrontation was avoided.
@sruthisagar Somaya Gupta, a student activist who was outside the Kalkaji Police station, told @scroll_in: “We were here when the students came in. They were brought in a bus. Most of them have been beaten up."
@sruthisagar @scroll_in "These are MPhil, post-grad students picked up from the library. They are injured and bleeding. There are no medical facilities.”
“There are six lawyers here saying they have come to represent them. They have sealed the gate and are not letting them in,” Somaya Gupta added.
“There are six lawyers here saying they have come to represent them. They have sealed the gate and are not letting them in,” Somaya Gupta added.
@sruthisagar @scroll_in A student told @scroll_in on the phone: “The police started firing tear gas shells inside the reading hall by breaking the window panes of the reading hall. They got inside and started beating the students. I met some students who were beaten very badly and taken to ambulances."
@sruthisagar @scroll_in “The shocking thing is they [the police] did not even spare people who were studying in the reading halls of Jamia. They were not protesting, they were studying there,” he said.
@sruthisagar @scroll_in This student was speaking from inside a hostel where the lights had been switched off. “A few of my friends, 70-80 people, when we saw police coming, we got inside the buildings of Jamia and switched off the lights to protect ourselves,” he said. “The police was uncontrollable.”
@sruthisagar @scroll_in Here is a video showing the police beating up students in what I'm told is the area in front of the Zakir Hussain library. Presumably earlier in the evening.
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On both Jamia and the protest outside Delhi Police headquarters.
On both Jamia and the protest outside Delhi Police headquarters.
@sruthisagar @scroll_in A student told us on phone:
“When the police started coming inside the campus, a lot of people were obviously running back inside the hostel area."
Many students were caught in police lathicharge. Some injured were taken to the hospital but others *still* hiding in the hostels
“When the police started coming inside the campus, a lot of people were obviously running back inside the hostel area."
Many students were caught in police lathicharge. Some injured were taken to the hospital but others *still* hiding in the hostels
