The Indian community in Manchester, UK, turned out to protest against India's Citizen (Amendment) Act, which was passed by the Indian Parliament on 11th December 2019. It amended the Citizen Act of 1955 by providing a path to citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religious minorities that had fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 2014. Muslims were not given such eligibility. The act was the first time religion had been overtly used as a criterion for citizenship under Indian law, going against the constitution of India. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called it "fundamentally discriminatory"