(MENAFN- Arab Times) Thousands have signed a petition urging protection for two Indian sisters after a local council allegedly ordered them raped and paraded naked as "punishment" after their brother eloped with a married woman.
Amnesty International said Sunday more than 122,000 people have joined its online petition in recent days to protest at the order by the council of elders or "khap panchayat" in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. "An unelected all-male village council (khap panchayat) ordered that they be raped and paraded naked, their faces blackened, as punishment for the actions of their brother," Amnesty's petition said.
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