A 2010 report by Antonio Giustozzi for Afghanistan Analysts Network
A 2010 report by Antonio Giustozzi for Afghanistan Analysts Network
Witch hunts targeting women are common in east and central India, and a number of accused are killed every year.
Most of the cases take place in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar.
The Asian Human Rights Commission received information that on 9 January 2011 according to police officials over 40,000 people gathered in the streets of Karachi, the capital of Sindh Province for a rally. The speakers
of the rally announced over their public address system that anyone showing support for the amendments to the blasphemy laws should face the same fate as Salman Taseer. No officer of the law enforcement agencies or government officials including at least 3,000 members of the police, who were present at the meeting area, moved to silence them or did not take any action despite such death threat was made in in public. It has created serious death threats to the ordinary people of Pakistan.
Why is the Nitish Kumar Govt. giving character certificates to rape-accused BJP MLA of Purnea and slandering the rape victim? Why is Mayawati’s police jailing the gang rape victim and protecting the accused BSP MLA?
Why are rapists of a dalit girl being protected and woman activist jailed in Punjab? These are the questions raised by protesting women at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on 8 January 2011, at a demonstration organised by the AIPWA and AISA, and joined by representatives of several other women’s groups.
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