VOA常速英语:《新公民法》导致印度抗议不断

The death toll continued to rise in India's Saturday as protests against a new citizenship law continued.
As Reuters' Emer McCarthy reports, the state of Uttar Pradesh has seen some of the worst rioting.
Officials said more than 1,500 protesters have been arrested since parliament passed the law on December 11, with India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, seeing the worst violence.

Rights activists in the state said police had raided their houses and offices to prevent them from planning fresh demonstrations.
Uttar Pradesh is ruled by Narendra Modi's nationalist party and had long seen clashes between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
The law aims to grant citizenship to minorities faiths from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, deemed as suffering persecution there. But critics say it discriminates against Muslims and threatens India's secular ethos.
That's Emer McCarthy reporting.