On 24 January 2022, a group of at least 27 community-based women and human rights defenders were violently picked up by the police, arrested and later charges on false charges for staging a peaceful protest against the construction of a road affecting their livelihoods as fishing community in Honnavar Taluk, India. One of the activists was a breastfeeding mother, and another, who was pregnant at the time of the assault, lost her unborn child three days later. The road is being built by Honnavar Ports Pvt. Ltd. (HPPL). The community anticipates that a port handling coal and iron ore of this size on their beach would break the delicate ecological balance and put an end to their inter-generational livelihood.