Women’s rights activists denied access to (prisoner) Soni Sori
Aman Sethi – The Hindu – Wednesday, 18 January2012 (originally published 14 Jan)
A team of activists from 40 gender and human rights organisations around the country has accused the Chhattisgarh government, police and prison authorities of conspiring to cover up an instance of custodial torture.
“We came to visit Soni Sori on the invitation of N. Bajinder Kumar, principal secretary to the Chief Minister,” said Nidhi Aggarwal of Saheli Women’s Resource Centre. “We met him in Delhi last year, where he assured us that Soni Sori was safe and told us we were welcome to come and see for ourselves.” On their arrival in Chhattisgarh however, the team was not allowed to meet Ms. Sori due to “security considerations.”
In a letter smuggled out of the prison and addressed to the Supreme Court, Ms. Soni said she was stripped and electrocuted in the course of a police interrogation . . .
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