US panel hears of risks to Indian Muslims

Experts warned a US government panel on Wednesday that India's Muslims face risks of expulsion or other persecution under a citizenship law that has triggered major protests.The hearing held inside Congress was called by the US Commission on International Freedom, which has been denounced by the Indian government as biased.Ashutosh Varshney, a prominent scholar of sectarian violence in India, told the panel that the law championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalists amounted to