(23 May 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI - 23 May 2023 1. Indian women wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat leading a protest march 2. Mid of police personnel accompanying protest 3. Various of wrestlers and their supporters march carrying Indian flags, banners, placards, shouting slogans 4. Wide of India Gate (World War memorial) as protestors converge, police mingle with crowds 5. Policemen at a barricade 6. Protesting wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik standing atop a barricade to address their supporters 7. Supporters squatting on the road 8. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sakshi Malik, Indian women wrestler “We are getting support from all across the country, this is a fight for the daughters of India and we have to win this fight and we have to peacefully conduct this agitation. I request you to keep supporting us. We will win this fight for sure.” 9. Mid of supporters 10. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Bajrang Punia, Wrestler “This fight is for the respect, prestige of our daughters, this fight has spread across the country and now it’s a fight for everyone and till the time they don’t get justice we will continue this fight 11. Supporters sitting around lit candles 12. Supporters shouting slogans, holding placards 13. Wrestlers lighting up candles 14. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Indu (uses only one name) Supporter “There has been no help from the government, children are not getting justice, the children (protesting wrestlers) have worked really hard and made a name for the country, parents have also worked hard. Modi (Indian prime minister Narendra Modi) was made prime minister by the public and they (wrestlers) succeeded with their own hard work and if he (Modi) cant get them justice then who will he get justice for? I would say please come and get them justice.” 15. Supporters holding lit candles STORYLINE: India’s top female wrestlers led a candlelight march of nearly 1,000 protesters in the capital on Tuesday demanding the resignation and arrest of the president of the wrestling federation for allegedly sexually harassing young athletes, one of whom was a minor. Carrying India's national flag, they marched to India Gate, a monument close to the country's parliament building. A strong presence of police accompanied them on the marching route. The protesters have been staging a protest in the center of New Delhi for nearly a month, amid a brutal heat wave, while foregoing their training schedules. Two Olympic medalists, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, are part of the protests and have threatened to hand back their medals if no action is taken against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The protests have grown with many members of opposition parties and farmer unions taking up the wrestlers’ cause. Most of the Indian wrestlers come from the northern agricultural states of Haryana and Punjab. They accused Singh, a 66-year-old powerful lawmaker representing the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, of sexually harassing seven young female wrestlers. Singh has denied the accusations and called the protests “politically motivated” by the opposition Congress party. Vinesh Phogat, who has won wrestling medals at the world championships, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, claimed in January that several coaches have exploited female wrestlers at the behest of the WFI president. Singh continues to head the federation and no report has been released in the months since. The women returned to their protest in April and have said they will not move until Singh is arrested. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/bb2ae0eb734747108b7920596b73a5f5