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May-16-2012 13:36 ![]() ![]() INDIA: BSF Torture Yet Another Person in West BengalLetter by William Gomes Salem-News.comHuman Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes writes to India's Chief Minister, about flagrant border police abuse in West Bengal.
(HONG KONG) - It is hard to imagine the level of brutality that awaits some Indians; men in India do not hesitate to openly beat women in a public setting, and this time, once again, the suspects are police.
A woman named Rupjan Bewa, of the Murshidabad district in West Bengal, had fallen ill and was suffering from a fever and a cold. In this state, she set out to visit a doctor and along the way, she dropped off her voter identity card at the Border Security Force Out-Post No. 2 under Farajipara BSF outpost at about 4.30 p.m. About an hour later she returned to retrieve her identification but the BSF jawans, as they are called in India, began searching Rupjan Bewa against her consent. Then, they produced an iron rod and began beating this sick, illiterate woman in a cruel and humiliating manner. When she protested, her clothes were torn off, she was thrashed to the ground, and by the time she was able to free herself from this violence, she had lost her medicine, a gold earring, and a substantial amount of money was taken from her. The next day, with untreated injuries from the police attack, Ms Rupjan Bewa attempted to report what had happened to her, at Jalangi Police Station, and at this point she was faced with an entirely different set of corrupt circumstances. The case underscores many problems in India's legal system. This woman has no “freedom of movement” within the borders of the Indian state, she does not have “liberty and security of person” and against “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”. Her rights have been infringed and she has exhausted all possible avenues for justice.
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Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes is a Bangladeshi journalist, human rights activist and author was born on 25 December, 1985 in Dhaka. As an investigative journalist he wrote widely for leading European and Asian media outlets. He is also active in advocating for free and independent media and journalists’ rights, and is part of the free media movement, Global Independent Media Center – an activist media network for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate telling of the truth. He worked for Italian news agency Asianews.it from year 2009 to 2011, on that time he was accredited as a free lance journalist by the press information department of Bangladesh. During this time he has reported a notable numbers of reports for the news agency which were translated into Chinese and Italian and quoted by notable number of new outlets all over the world.He, ideologically, identifies himself deeply attached with anarchism. His political views are often characterized as “leftist” or “left-wing,” and he has described himself as an individualist anarchist.
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