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International Business Times
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Aishwarya KUMAR

'Sea Of Misery': Indian Rights Lawyer Spotlights Plight Of Jailed Women

While in prison herself, Sudha Bharadwaj, one of India’s best known activists, observed her fellow women inmates were denied basic rights, including a good defence (Credit: AFP)

After three years in detention experiencing the "sea of misery" endured by women in Indian jails, one of the nation's best-known rights lawyers warns that society's prejudices are amplified behind bars.

Unable to raise funds or complete complicated paperwork for bail, many women are incarcerated for years while awaiting trial in India's glacial judicial process -- especially those at the bottom of the country's millennia-old caste hierarchy, said Sudha Bharadwaj.

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