India: they beat a Muslim boy, he drank in the Hindu temple

(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, MARCH 16 - Two men were arrested in Ghaziabad, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, for assaulting a 14-year-old Muslim boy, "as punishment" for entering a Hindu time , perdissetarsi: the district police announced it.

    The video of the attack, released on Instagram and immediately relaunched on social media, caused a wave of indignation in the country: in the video we see one of the two men brutally beating the fourteen-year-old, while the accomplice lofilma.

    Civil rights associations express concern over the increase in violence in Uttar Pradesh: according to Human Rights Watch, violence against minorities, in particular, Muslims, by Hindu extremist groups in the state is worryingly growing.

    Numerous Indian temples forbid access to non-Hindus: the newspaper The Indian Express writes that at the entrance to that of Ghaziabad, the scene of the "punitive" aggression, a sign bears the inscription: "Muslims forbidden to enter".

(HANDLE).