印度取消列车，警方洪水般涌入首都以阻止抗议 一场针对选民名单全面修订的计划性抗议促使警方下令对新德里——首都——实施虚拟封锁。该国最高法院介入。
India Cancels Trains, Floods Capital with Police to Block Protests A planned protest against a sweeping voter roll revision prompted police to order a virtual shutdown of New Delhi, the capital. The country’s highest court intervened.
印度执法部门周五采取了前所未有的措施，以防止抗议者在首都集结，下令取消前往德里的列车并暂停城市的大众交通。他们还实际上将几名潜在抗议者软禁在家。
Law enforcement authorities in India took extraordinary measures Friday to prevent protesters from assembling in the capital, ordering the cancellation of trains bound for Delhi and the suspension of mass transit in the city. They also effectively put several would-be protesters under house arrest.
这些举措是对被称为“蟑螂人民党”的Z世代运动的回应，该运动号召全国各地的人们于周六聚集在德里市中心，抗议他们认为是出于政治动机对印度选民名单的清洗。
The moves came in response to a call by the Gen Z movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party for people from all over the country to converge in central Delhi for a protest on Saturday against what they say is a politically motivated purge of India’s voter roll.
周六的集会将在名为“詹塔尔曼塔尔”的纪念碑举行，该地多年来一直是抗议场所，但目前正被安全部队封锁。
Saturday’s rally is to be held at a monument called Jantar Mantar, which has been a protest site for many years, but which security forces are currently blockading.
执法部门施加的限制促使印度最高法院在周五下午罕见地发布了一项紧急命令，敦促政府重新考虑这些限制并提供一个替代的抗议空间。在回应一名反对党政治家的上诉时，法院还表示，城市的地铁服务不应被完全关闭。
The restrictions imposed by law enforcement authorities led India’s highest court to issue a rare emergency order on Friday afternoon, urging the government to reconsider the limits and offer an alternative space for a protest. Responding to an appeal from an opposition party politician, the court also said the city’s metro service should not be shut down completely.
“你必须防止某些事情，”印度最高法院首席大法官苏里亚·坎特说。“但这并不意味着你应该用大锤子去拍苍蝇，”他补充道。印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪尚未就本周的抗议发表评论。
“You have to prevent certain things,” the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Surya Kant, said. “But that does not mean you should use a hammer to kill a fly,” he added. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not commented on this week’s protests.
周六的计划抗议活动是在全国范围内一周的示威活动之后进行的，这些示威活动要求印度选举委员会主席Gyanesh Kumar辞职。该委员会长期以来因主持公平选举而备受尊敬，但最近因选民名单修订工作而陷入激烈的公众批评。这项清理选民名单的工作始于去年夏天，最终导致1.3亿个名字被删除。批评者称这是一项巩固莫迪权力的行动。
Saturday’s planned protest follows a week of nationwide demonstrations demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, the head of India’s election commission, a body that was long held in high regard for running fair polls but has recently come under intense public criticism because of the voter roll revision. That exercise to clean up voter lists began last summer and ended up eliminating 130 million names. Critics say it is an effort to entrench Mr. Modi’s power.
在首都，反对党和其他活动团体在过去一周里每天举行抗议活动，但遭到警方的强力�压，随后被拘留。周五，社交媒体上流传着视频，显示警察将准备前往德里参加抗议的年轻人从全国各地开往德里的列车上拉下。
In the capital, opposition parties and other activist groups have held daily protests for the last week, only to be aggressively restrained by police and then detained. On Friday, videos spread on social media of police officers pulling young would-be protesters from trains bound for Delhi in various parts of the country.
周五，中央德里警力密集。在Jantar Mantar附近，高高的黄色警察警戒线被链条连接在一起。交通圆环处竖起了扩音器，播放警告人们不要聚集的通告。“违规可能导致对你采取法律行动，”通告如是说。
There was a heavy police presence in central Delhi on Friday. Around Jantar Mantar, tall yellow police barricades were chained together. Loudspeakers were erected at traffic circles, playing announcements warning people not to gather. “Violation may lead to legal action against you,” the announcements said.
印度长期以来以蓬勃发展的民主国家自豪，即使在莫迪执政的12年里，异议空间一直在缩小。
India has long prided itself as a thriving democracy, even as space for dissent has shrunk in Mr. Modi’s 12-year tenure.
政府本周的强硬行动远超近期试图阻止反政府抗议的举措。今年夏天，蟑螂党的抗议活动点燃了一代人对高校入学考试制度失灵的愤怒，并罕见地迫使一名政府部长下台。政府并未阻止今年夏天的抗议者聚集，但以武力作出回应。
The government’s heavy-handed efforts this week go considerably further than recent attempts to stop anti-government agitation. This summer’s protests by the Cockroach party uncorked a generation’s rage over a dysfunctional college entrance exam system and won the rare ouster of a government minister. The government did not stop the protesters from gathering this summer but responded with force.
周五，德里警方表示，他们已拒绝批准此次集会，称组织者未能提前足够时间申请批准，且上次抗议时违反了规定，但未提供他们具体违反了哪些规定的证据。在新闻发布会上，警方高级官员努普尔·普拉萨德表示，“合理的预防性限制”已被实施。她警告将对违反命令的人采取法律行动。
On Friday, Delhi police said they had denied permission for the rally, saying the organizers had not asked for permission sufficiently in advance and broke rules the last time they protested, without offering evidence of which rules they broke. In a news conference, Nupur Prasad, a senior police official, said “reasonable preventive restrictions” had been put in place. She warned legal action against those who violate the order.
蟑螂党领袖阿舒托什·兰卡在周五晚上向《时代》报发送的语音备忘录中表示，抗议活动将继续进行。“政府陷入了完全的恐慌，”他在语音备忘录中说道。“他们不知道如何应对和平抗议者，这就是为什么他们正在诉诸绝对的专制手段。”他补充道：“在世界上最大的民主国家，你甚至必须抗议才能去指定的抗议地点抗议，这真是一种耻辱。”他此处指的是詹塔尔曼塔尔。警方的策略在一定程度上成功地阻止了抗议者抵达德里。
Ashutosh Ranka, a leader of the Cockroach party, said in a voice note to The Times on Friday evening that the protest would go on. “The government is in complete panic,” he said in the voice note. “They don’t know how to deal with peaceful protesters, and that’s why they are resorting to absolutely dictatorial measures.”“It’s a shame that in the world’s largest democracy you have to protest to even go and protest at a designated protest site,” he added, referring to Jantar Mantar. Police tactics have succeeded, to an extent, in preventing protesters from reaching Delhi.
26岁的库纳尔·乔杜里原计划带领大约30人的代表团从距离德里三小时车程的一个城镇前往德里。但周四晚上，警察来到他家并一直未离开，他说，他们并未出示逮捕令。
Kunal Choudhary, 26, was planning to lead a delegation of around 30 people to Delhi from a town three hours away by bus. But on Thursday evening, police officers showed up at his home and have not left, he said, offering no warrant for his arrest.
“他向我展示了一个WhatsApp群组，其中有一份名单，我的名字也在其中。他们奉命前往所有这些人的住所，”他说。
“They showed me a WhatsApp group where there was a list with my name also. They were given orders to go to all those people’s homes,” he said.
当他通过扬声器电话讲述事件时，一名警官曼文德拉·辛格正在通话中倾听，并自我介绍了身份。他拒绝说明自己为何在此，仅表示乔杜里将被留置在家中直至周六晚上。
As he narrated the events by speakerphone, a police officer, Manvendra Singh, listened in, identifying himself on the call. He refused to say why he was there, only that Mr. Choudhary would be detained at home through Saturday evening.
乔杜里的母亲米蒂卡为这名警官端上了茶和奥利奥饼干作为早餐。“我妈妈现在已经习惯了。她以前会很害怕，”他说。这是一个月内警察第三次来到他家。索米尼·森古普塔是《时代》报气候团队的国际气候记者。
Mr. Choudhary’s mother, Mitika, served the police officer tea and Oreo cookies for breakfast. “My mother is used to this now. She used to be quite scared,” he said. It was the third time in a month police had shown up at his house. Somini Sengupta is the international climate reporter on the Times climate team.