‘Threats, detentions, militarisation’: How Arunachal government is choking anti-dam protests

What happened: Police detained four Siang Indigenous Farmers' Forum activists, including leader Adum Tayom, from a barber's shop in Pasighat on October 9 and took them to Itanagar, where they remain in preventive detention. Key numbers: Detentions on October 9; four activists held; families not told for more than eight hours; protests target a proposed 11,000 MW dam in Upper Why it matters: The four are residents of Geku, a village central to protests against the dam. SIFF says the project would submerge ancestral lands and displace residents, and the group has stalled surveys for years.

Police detained four Siang Indigenous Farmers' Forum activists, including leader Adum Tayom, from a barber's shop in Pasighat on October 9 and took them to Itanagar, where they remain in preventive detention.

The four are residents of Geku, a village central to protests against the dam. SIFF says the project would submerge ancestral lands and displace residents, and the group has stalled surveys for years.