The Vulnerable Need Protection from Lynching: Shehla Rashid
The student activist, member of the National Campaign Speaks to Communalism Combat/Newsclick on MASUKA, a draft law to prevent lynching. The Maanav Suraksha Kanoon Draft Law and is Out for Public Discussion. In this 15 minute video interview she speaks of how the vulnerable sections of society,women, the differently abled, transgender have always been subject to brute violence and the mobs have gotten free. Now, under the Modi government the lynch mobs have trained themselves on Muslims and Dalits. The time has come, she says for the gaps in the law, that does not define mass crimes and lynchings to be filled.
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