Thursday, June 5, 2014

India - Police fired water cannon protesting woman against rape



Another woman has been found dead after being gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh. Police fired water cannon protesting woman

watercannon2 norapeBBC news
The body of the woman, thought to be 22, was discovered on Saturday in the Baheri area, the Press Trust of India reported quoting police sources.
A post mortem revealed she had been forced to drink acid before she was strangled.
Indian police have fired water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters in Uttar Pradesh state where two teenage cousins were gang-raped and hanged. The protesters, many of them women, were demonstrating outside the office of state chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. The postmortem report of the two Badaun cousins who were raped stated they were hanged from a tree while they were still alive, said Badaun SSP Alok Saxena on Wednesday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-27692104

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