A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free the 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences.
Bilkis Bano, who is now in her forties, was five months pregnant when she was brutally gangraped in communal violence in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat, which saw nearly 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, killed in some of the worst religious riots India has experienced.
