Name: Modi Denies India Is Targeting Muslims. We Found a Different Reality. | The Dispatch
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This detention center in India's Assam state

Basic passive voice

But India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,

And we went to the remote northeast corner of India

this compound will house up to 3,000 detainees — people who

Reporter: “Why are the walls so high?”

The fear is that most of them will be Muslim.

And the state they live in is leading Modi's push

to change India into a more overtly Hindu nation.

She says she was born and raised in India,

Still, she was left off a roster of Indian citizens

Almost two million people were left off that list.

Soon, many will be called to a court like this one called

These people have been marked as suspected foreigners.

They're bringing their documents to an official.

That person, appointed by the government,

will then decide if they're Indian citizens

Mamoni Rajkumari was one of those officials.

We found five more officials, like Rajkumari,

who accused the state of targeting Muslims.

Kartik Roy said he started to face pressure a few years ago

when Modi's party, the B.J.P., took control in Assam.

When he didn't declare more Muslims as foreigners,

who's lived for years as a citizen suddenly

He lost his case at the Foreigners Tribunal,

and ended up going to jail for almost four years.

During that time, his family sold their land

But until he can convince the court that he's Indian,

his name will not appear on the citizenship list.

And that list: It's riddled with clerical errors.

This man, Dukhdam Das, is also not on the list.

His case is pretty much identical to Ali's,

And as far as many in Modi's party are concerned,

So in December, the government doubled down.

favoring all major religions in South Asia except Islam.

Protests led to religious riots in India's capital.

More than 50 people died in the violence,

have promised to make a country-wide registry

Asbahar Ali voted in the past, as only a citizen can.

But he may not get to exercise that right again.

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