UN: New Indian citizenship law "discriminatory" against Muslims

A boy holding a placard in Mumbai during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), a bill that seeks to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries. - Reuters

GENEVA: The United Nations human rights office voiced concern on Friday that India's new citizenship law is "fundamentally discriminatory in nature" and called for it to be reviewed.

The new law does not extend the same protection to Muslim migrants as to other religious minorities, thereby undermining India's commitment to equality before the law, enshrined in the Constitution, UN human rights spokesman Jeremy Laurence said.