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A seated group of women, mostly young, holds cardboard protest signs reading STOP THE ATROCITIES and STOP RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION in a red-carpeted hall with a stainless steel railing. Several wear white saris or kurtas with orange or yellow shawls, and one woman in a yellow shawl holds a pink placard reading STOP THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION overhead. Others sit with clasped hands or look toward the front, and one woman wears a red bindi and white sari. The setting is an indoor hall with orange walls and a wooden platform visible behind the group.

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