German anti-CAA protester on being deported.
| | | | | | | On 23 December, a 24-year-old German exchange student was not only expelled from the country after he attended a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, but he was given just eight hours to pack his belongings and leave.
“It was totally untransparent,” said Jakob Lindenthal in a recent conversation with HuffPost India. “Looking back, it was an experience that I will pass on to people who have to deal with authoritarian institutions wherever it may be in the world.”
Lindenthal, who grew up in Bavaria and studies physics at the Dresden University of Technology, came to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in July 2019. At a protest in Chennai on 19 December, he held up a sign that read, “1933-1945, We Have Been There.”
“What I was trying to say is that between 1933 and 1945, when Europe was destroyed, there was not a long way to go,” he said. “In 1933, it was not visible that all this would happen in the next 12 years. I feel that Indian democracy is at a critical point where there are lots of dangers to it.” |
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