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"They brought me into the party office, where a group of people were drinking. For the next one and half days, two of them tortured me in the party office itself. I was told that my husband would not ‘take me back’ after this and so I should stay on with the men in the room – that they would give me a government job eventually. They said they would place my husband’s severed head on my palms if I complained about what they had done to me,” said one woman.
The woman said that local girls and women are terrified of attention from them. “Any woman found attractive by a TMC leader would be brought to the party office and leaders would take turns to rape her. Your caste or religion won’t matter,” she added.
https://thewire.in/government/sandeshkhali-bengal-tmc-sexual-assault-rape-police
The question I have is this: [have any] ▮▮▮ human rights lawyers and intellectuals [protested] against this?
[Ed: Redacted culture-war flame-bait, rephrased as a question]