GUWAHATI (India): Protestors in northeast India set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday (Dec 10) in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government's new citizenship bill.
The legislation, set to go before the upper house on Wednesday, will fast-track citizenship claims from refugees from three neighbouring countries -- but not if they are Muslim.
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