Watch the State is a collaborative initiative between researchers at The Polis Project, Inc. and Simeen Anjum, a student artist and activist, to document, analyse and interpret the human rights violations, police violence and structural oppression perpetrated by the Indian State and its enforcement agencies against minorities in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown. Watch the State was set up in December 2019 when protests against the unconstitutional implementation of the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) erupted across India and were met with unprecedented State violence. Since then, the project has expanded to document the violence during the Delhi Pogrom in February and the COVID-19 lockdown in India.
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