San Fransisco
Protests were witnessed in front of the Indian consulate in San Francisco, US, protesting the denial of entry in India to Prof Richard Shapiro, chair of the anthropology department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.Shapiro's wife Angana Chatterji, who is a well-known activist, is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the US.
She is also the co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir.

Several students and activists took part in the hour-long protest that included chanting, singing, dancing, and marching.

Statements were read attesting to the violations perpetrated by the indefinite ban placed on Shapiro's travel to India and called for its revocation. Later they gave a memorandum to the staff at the consulate.

"The protest was successful in that we clearly and publicly communicated our dismay and alarm at the barring of Prof Shapiro and the isolation of Kashmiris from the international community," Amanda McBride, one of the student organisers said.