{"id":11885,"date":"2019-12-08T01:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/07\/india-rapes-activist-hunger-strike-protest"},"modified":"2019-12-08T01:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:35:15","slug":"i-will-die-if-i-have-to-hunger-striker-leads-fight-against-rape-crisis-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11885","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will die if I have to\u2019: hunger striker leads fight against rape crisis in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government inaction drives Swati Maliwal of Delhi Women\u2019s Commission to take a stand<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop rape. Stop rape.\u201d The chants rang out over the Samta Sthal memorial as hundreds of women from Delhi and beyond raised their fists in a show of collective rage. Among them sat Leena, 35. \u201cI was six years old when I was raped and I could never speak about it,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is India\u2019s worst disease and we need to fix it before even more women are hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outrage that engulfed India last week began with a brutal rape case in Hyderabad, where a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/06\/indian-police-shoot-dead-four-men-suspected-of-hyderabad\" title=\"\">27-year-old vet was gang-raped by four men <\/a>on her way home from work and then killed, her body burned in a motorway underpass. But each day since, horrific cases have emerged relentlessly, from a teenager in Bihar who was gang-raped, strangled to death and burned, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/06\/i-dont-see-anything-changing-despair-india-rape-crisis-grows?fbclid=IwAR2OgQgMZHndjro6-ILTXEraocEQAQOqLc0i7nL5AN8gqAaPMbCPCDYhaOk\" title=\"\">a six-year-old in Rajasthan<\/a> who was raped and killed by a neighbour, and a rape victim in Uttar Pradesh who was set upon and burned alive by her rapists, who were out on bail, on her way to testify against them in court. Doctors said on Saturday that the woman had died of her injuries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/07\/india-rapes-activist-hunger-strike-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government inaction drives Swati Maliwal of Delhi Women\u2019s Commission to take a stand\u201cStop rape. Stop rape.\u201d The chants rang out over the Samta Sthal memorial as hundreds of women from Delhi and beyond raised their fists in a show of collective rage. Am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,86,242,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-law","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions\/11886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}