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Police in India’s capital New Delhi have used tear gas and water cannons on people demonstrating in the wake of a brutal gang rape of a female student on a bus last weekend.
Some female protesters were injured after the police charged them when they tried to approach a key federal government building near the India Gate monument in the heart of the capital on Saturday.
Many of the protesters clashed with the police, pelting stones at them, local network NDTV reported.
On Sunday, police imposed orders prohibiting public assembly in the area, calling on protesters to demonstrate at alternate locations.
“Security has been tightened in the heart of New Delhi, with police in riot gear in every area of possible demonstration. Section 144, a criminal code that prohibits assembly of more than five people, has been imposed. The situation turned quite ugly on Saturday, after protesters clashed with police, and the police retaliated with water cannon and tear gas,” reported Al Jazeera’s Subina Shrestha from New Delhi.
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| The gang rape in New Delhi has sparked public outrage across India [AFP] |
Television footage of Saturday’s clashes showed several hundred protesters shouting, “We want justice”, as police struggled to stop the crowd from smashing flower pots and other symbols of the capital’s beautification drive.
The gang rape in New Delhi has sparked public outrage across India, bringing thousands of people onto city streets. Marches, demonstrations and candlelight vigils have spread during the last week.
A silent march was also organised in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday.
In the northeastern state of Assam, hundreds of women and girls marched through the city of Guwahati, carrying placards and shouting “Hang Rapists” and “Stop Violence Against Women“.
On Friday, hundreds of students and activists blockaded roads in New Delhi and marched to the president’s palace, breaking through police barricades, despite the use of water cannons, to demand better safety across the country.
Last week’s case – covered intensively by TV news networks – provoked uproar in parliament earlier this week, prompting the authorities to announce measures to make the capital safer for women.
These include increased policing and fast-tracking court hearings for rape.
Stricter policing
The Indian government vowed on Friday to press for life sentences for her six attackers and promised stricter policing.
RK Singh, the home secretary, said the government would pay the medical bills of the 23-year-old victim, who is fighting for her life after suffering serious injuries to her intestines in the attack on Sunday night.
Six drunken men were joyriding on a bus when they picked up the physiotherapy student and her 28-year-old male companion and took turns raping her. Afterwards, they threw the pair off the speeding vehicle.
Police say the woman was attacked with an iron rod after being raped.
The public verbal and physical sexual harassment of women, known as “Eve-teasing“, is routine in New Delhi, which has come to be known as India’s “rape capital”.
New Delhi, home to about 16 million people, has the highest number of sex crimes among India’s cities.
Police figures show rape is reported on average every 18 hours and some other form of sexual attack every 14 hours in the capital.
Five of the suspects were arrested soon after the crime and a sixth was caught on Friday, the Press Trust of India reported.
Ranjana Kumari, the director of the Centre for Social Research, told Al Jazeera that activists wanted quick dispensation of justice in the case, but also changes in the way that police deal with such cases.
“We want more effective policing. We want police to be gender-sensitised so that a woman after being sexually assaulted or [being the victim of] any sexual crime, when she walks into the police station, the police must not start blaminig her,” she said.
It really make me angry when people say women bring the misfortune of rape onto themselves. We have freedom of expression and that includes how we dress….why should someone use the excuse of “she was dressed provacatively” to justify rape??!! I am in the frontline and against rape. I will stand up for this cause until all rapists are given what they deserve….CASTRATION.
Yes wearing is the other aspect as well, firstly this is a women responsibility to protect herself and men should provide protection and respect her privacy. but at the same time she shouldn’t be advertising herself in the streets or try to become a beach babe…..
There are good and bad people in this world and one should protect themselves from bad… by wearing decent clothes….
I personally walk around with pepper spray, whistle and a kitchen fork
Nomatter how much you dress decntly, some men simply have no respect for women. In my Country I undergo alot of sexual harassment especially on my commute to work leading me to take such drastic measures as carrying sharp objects incase I get attacked.
Thats good pepper spray, wow sharp stuff is a bit risky u know, which country u r talking about ???
I have never actually gotten to use it but I keep it just incase. The fear!! I live in Kenya…and commuting in our city is a nightmare.
Wow…. it’s everywhere is like this
This reached our news the other day … Terrible if they let the men get away from this.
Poor woman – she are damaged for life both physical and mentally – and her body, soul and life will never be the same. Glad that there is protests and a very loud ones too.
This one just reported and came into the naked eye but to be honest there are loads which will not be reported do to their life’s threats.
Ýes, that was all in on the news last evening too .. and the amount of crimes there is against women.
Hard to believe that on so many places around the world – women are treated with no respect for their sex what so ever. .
You are right and so called the civilized western countries they are worse……..
At least in western countries they gets a trail .. and are convicted.
Nope they are all the same who get caught are criminals and who don’t the are heros
I don’t see that in the Western world we see men that rape women as heros … if they don’t get caught.
Seriously u don’t know the evil attitude in the west and america….. Who nevr get caught they are always supported by the same kind u know…..
Still I don’t think US call men hero’s that has raped a child or a woman. And in an US jail rapist really gets a hard time by other inmates and if they aren’t caught … is it very difficult to put them in front of justice.
There are no country who called them heros, as I said apart from, among themselves they are known as heros. And US Army is the biggest example of the recent time and it is a bitter truth…:)
Okay … but not all rapists belongs to the US army.
Women are getting raped every minute around the world by men of their own – even by their own husband and partner.
Okay … but not all rapists belongs to the US army.
Women are getting raped every minute around the world by men of their own – even by their own husband and partner.
I was in the Army and asian women across the board get raped where ever the military bases are and this is a fact they even get reported, army take this matter to themselves and don’t advert it. So no civil case at all just small punishment in barricks and not allowed to go out for sometime that’s all….. About civilian rapes mostly r afraid of the social factors as well as the life….
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I saw a sign held by a protester that said something like ” society tells women how not to get raped rather than telling men not to rape”
There is too much truth in that, and society needs to address that issue desperately.
yes; in Islam if the women dress moderately or perhaps cover her arse and tits it may avoid the erection of male and it does reduce the provocation or u may say they will not be deliberately invite or incite others to, c=look at me and touch me or feel me i am sexy. I am sure if one wants be an open shop, for me its open for business. Its better to dress decently so as to earn respect. As in America 91% rape victims are women….
You are still inferring that women who dress provocatively should be treated as an “open shop” … sorry but that misses the point COMPLETELY and pretty much absolves a man of responsibility which is WRONG. In fact I’m more than a little offended by that idea.
It’s NOT for women to be prohibited to dress in any way it’s for men to learn that it’s NEVER acceptable to rape someone. There’s a massive difference in the two.
I usually dress very conservatively, but I have *one* formal dinner gown with a low-ish top .. am I to be banned from wearing it because it might induce a man to rape me?
Your argument puts all responsibility on the women and none on the men, … that’s what’s so wrong in this awful situation.
I saw on the news another protester who had a sign “A dress is not a yes” and that’s true too. MANY women who are raped (like this poor women) were NOT leading on the men or dressing provocatively at all.
Don’t take me the wrong way plz, even if a woman walk naked in the street it doesn’t give any right to a man to rape her.
At the same time their is a huge responsibility on woman for being well dressed rather then an object of display or seek attention.. And this is a fact that a woman who’s seeks attention they normallly do in western society anyway. And I live in one so u have to understand my point of view in postive way…:).
It is so sad that this poor girl is fighting for her life and the men were not apprehended immediately. Women are so often treated so off handedly by the police and the courts. laws need to be changed around the world! Not only the law but also religious laws !!
I am just wonderding if their is any country which has Sharia law completely…. there is none not even Saudis got full Shariays, yes some portion of the Shariya but not all. And I cant recall much of the rape case there as US, small example; o, rape and consensual sex have the same pregnancy rate. This means that of those 64,080 US rapes in 2004-2005, minus the 15% of rapes that are of children under the age of 12 which gets us to 54,468 rapes of almost all reproductively-aged women, somewhere between 1,689 (3.1%) to 2,723 (5%) pregnancies from rape could have occurred in that year alone. Somewhere around half of those women were probably using some form of hormonal contraception, so let’s hope the numbers are even lower. Unfortunately, access to emergency contraception is still a challenge for rape survivors who go to hospitals, particularly Catholic hospitals, to receive treatment.
I do not know what the answers are but yes I agree religion ( Catholic, Muslim and Jewish and all others) do not favour the woman. It has beeen the same from the beginning of time and will continue.
I have to say that if u read the Qura’n translation, but not bits of pieaces out of context from the google or ant-muslims site. Then I have to disagree on that, I’ve read toughly new and old testimon. In jewish or christian scriptors doesn’t favor any but Quran does favor. If we come to the point of human factor then I agree that male figure cause of the some problem and so as the muslim in faith…..:)
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I find it heartbreaking that tragedies like this occur; but at the same time it’s uplifting to see how people gather together to express their rage, protest and maybe eventually make a difference.
yep that is the corrupt government and specially the politicians. My verdict is to hang the bastards on proven guilty. That’s why I love Shari’a Laws it is straight forward justice if it implemented correctly.