Wednesday, June 28, 2017

An inmate was brutally assaulted in an Indian prison, sparking a riot. But media coverage has turned her death into a footnote.

An inmate was brutally assaulted in an Indian prison, sparking a riot. But media coverage has turned her death into a footnote.

Riots in Indian prisons are so routine they rarely make the news. But this week, rolling television coverage of a protest at Byculla women's jail in Mumbai has transfixed a nation. According to reports, about 200 female inmates rioted June 24. Some climbed to the roof of the prison, others burned newspapers to protest the death […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/06/28/an-inmate-was-brutally-assaulted-in-an-indian-prison-sparking-a-riot-but-media-coverage-has-turned-her-death-into-a-footnote/

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