Thousands Detained as Youth-Led Protests Target India's Election Chief

Deutsche Welle reports thousands detained, leaders arrested on arrival, and a capital under lockdown during youth-led protests against India's election chief — a movement that has the Indian government's attention. The scale of the response is the signal: a mass detention campaign and a locked-down capital are not the reaction a government gives a protest it believes it can ignore, and they raise the cost of showing up for the very people the movement depends on. Attention, though, is a measure of disruption rather than of victory.