India’s Supreme Court has granted bail to a journalist jailed for more than 700 days for trying to visit the family of a Dalit teenager gang-raped in a small town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Siddique Kappan, 42, was arrested on October 5, 2020 and charged under a stringent terror law while he was on his way to Hathras, where authorities had allegedly burned the young woman’s body after she died of injuries suffered during the assault.
