In India, 4505 Muslims were booked and 285 arrested till October 7 in connection with the nationwide ‘I Love Muhammad’ protests, according to a fact-finding report by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), as released on Friday, October 10.

Of the 285, 89 Muslims have been arrested by the Bareilly police, Uttar Pradesh.

The APCR report says that although a majority of these protests have been peaceful with no slogan raising or vandalism and arson, they were met with police firing, manhandling, lathi charge, property seizures and mass arrests.

The APCR fact-finding team interviewed lawyers who said that the arrests, including those of minors, were arbitrary, and carried out without warrants, refusal to share FIR copies and families left in the lurch about their relatives’

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