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on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:27AM
from the not-something-to-joke-about dept.
from the not-something-to-joke-about dept.
One of the sisters who has been sentenced to be repeatedly raped because her brother eloped with a woman from a higher caste has said she cannot return home because she fears village elders will want to take revenge on her.
An illegal jury, composed of male upper caste Baghpat village elders, reportedly ordered the gang rape of Meenakshi Kumari, 23, and her 15-year-old sister after their brother Ravi eloped with a married woman, known only as Krishna, from a higher caste.
Ms Kumari, fearing for their lives, petitioned India's Supreme Court for protection. The case brought international attention after an Amnesty International petition to save the two girls from the punishment garnered more than 200,000 signatures.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 03 2015, @12:35PM
No, nothing like that. I don't usually submit stuff like this and didn't expect any insightful discussion (in fact it's played out about how I thought it would). But I submitted it because I hadn't heard about it and found it deeply appalling and thought, "This is a culture that we outsource our jobs to and whose practitioners we allow to come to our countries as H1B's (or the equivalent elsewhere)." I'm a globalist and committed xenophile, but the story gave me pause.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @08:43PM
Yeah, and imagine if the story was even true!