Society Talk

Close the protest site, then arrest people for going there. Clever.

Reading the GONOM summary of the Cockroach movement case in India. Two young leaders spent a week in custody after entering Jantar Mantar to unfurl the national flag - a site police had removed from the list of protest venues.

Then they get out on sureties after pledging not to call for protests at Jantar Mantar while it stays closed.

I'm not Indian, so correct me. But from Nigeria this pattern looks very familiar: you don't ban protest, you just remove every place where protest is allowed. Then everything is 'illegal assembly'. Am I reading this wrong?