Police have used photographs and videos posted to social media to identify and arrest 22 people connected to the beating and death of a prisoner accused of rape, The New York Times reports. Police say they have identified between 200 and 300 people out of the mob of thousands, and more arrests are expected.

A police inspector general in Kohima, Wabang Jamir, identified the prisoner as Syed Sarif Khan. From the Times:

The charges against those arrested included unlawful assembly, rioting and arson. Shops were burned during the protests that sprang up on Wednesday and Thursday, after it was learned that a man said to be an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh had been arrested in the rape of a woman from a Naga tribe. As yet, none of those arrested have been charged in his death.

The lynching came amidst controversy over the Indian government's decision to ban screenings of a documentary about the fatal 2012 gang rape of a young woman in Delhi, The Guardian reports.

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