Former women prisoners in India's Tamil Nadu allege ‘sub-human' treatment...

The world may be celebrating one hundred years of International Women's Day today, but for the women prisoners life has been one of “sub-human” existence.

According to three former detainees, life behind the bars is nothing short of violation of human rights and denial of adequate rights. Detainees are often physically and psychologically abused. Many are deprived of food, sleep, and medical care and they have no proper access to family members or to free legal counsel.

The Campaign for Custodial Justice and Abolition of Torture (CCAT), a Madurai-based NGO, has taken up the case of these inmates. It will file a case against the State demanding implementation of the High Court order issued by Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice K. Chandru on January 9, 2007. More...

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