The fundamental rights of speech, assembly, and movement were regularly suspended during this period. During a July 24 march, the riot-geared policing force boxed in activists and used pepper spray and clubs against them. Later that night, the Sister's Camelot house, where some activists congregated, was raided on the pretext of drugs, and eleven people were arrested on charges related to the day's protest. The police violated the terms of the warrant, beat the activists, seized their property, and thew them in jail for the night. Naturally, the local media provided almost universally inaccurate, valueless and biased coverage of these events.
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