A village council in India has ordered two young women to be raped after their brother eloped with a married woman from a higher caste
One of the women from the Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh in India, 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari, has asked the Indian Supreme Court for protection. Human rights organization Amnesty International has been spreading awareness about the case and collecting tens of thousands of signatures to petition local authorities to intervene
After the unelected council last month ordered for Meenakshi and her 15-year-old sister "be raped and paraded naked" as punishment for their brother's affair, the sisters and their family fled to Delhi, according to Amnesty International. Their home was later looted by members of the higher caste. Read more...
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