A group of 20 Christian missionaries were wounded by police officers because of their missionary work in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan. The attack took place on 26 February and has recently become widely publicised amidst concerns of ongoing religious violence and persecution against Christians in the largely Hindu nation. ‘We were made to get out of the police van by being kicked and then, inside the police station, the police lined us up and hit us with belts on our hands and wrists’ The missionaries arrived from Hyderabad and began distributing Christian leaflets in Jaipur. They were met with some hostility so they left. However, when they returned to where they were staying they found that someone had called the police and they were arrested. This incident comes on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying, ‘We consider the freedom to have, to retain and to adopt a religion or belief is a personal choice of a citizen.’