Detentions, Red Profiles, and the One-Point Demand

After the Supreme Court's 21 July 2024 ruling that scaled back the quota system, reporting described a relative calm. The curfew eased and mobile internet was restored in stages beginning around 23 July. That window of calm would prove short. Within days, attention shifted from the streets to the leaders of the student movement, as a sequence of detentions began that would reshape the protests in the days that followed.