Cops in India on Wednesday arrested at least 70 students at a Muslim university over the planned screening of a 2020 BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, examining with the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in fomenting the violent pogrom in which over a thousand Indian Muslims were slaughtered by the fascist Hindu cult RSS, Bloomberg reports.
Most of the students were later released, though at least 13 remain in custody over the planned screening. The film, in which former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw lays responsibility for the violence at the then-Gujarat Chief Minister Modi’s feet, is subject to an “intellectual property rights” violation in India, and the government has pushed Twitter and YouTube to block it.