SATHANKULAM, KOMPAS.com – A father and son have died after being tortured Police of India, and this incident is called repetition kasus George Floyd.
This case occurred only a few weeks after death George Floyd in Minneapolis, United States (US). The death of the African-American man sparked large demonstrations in many countries.
J Jayaraj (58) and Beniks Immanuel (31) were arrested on June 19 on charges of opening a shop past operational hours in the State of Tamil Nadu.
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Reported from AFP Sunday (6/28/2020), both of them died in the hospital a few days later. Such is the statement from the authorities.
The family then issued a written accusation that the victim was abused by the police and suffered rectal bleeding.
Tamil Nadu State Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami said the two police officers involved in the alleged torture had been frozen in status.
The case of death in the city of Sathankulam sparked protests last week, and shop owners throughout Tamil Nadu staged a mass strike on Wednesday (6/24/2020).
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“I am shocked to hear that. Surprised, sad and angry … the guilty cannot escape without punishment,” Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra Jonas wrote on Twitter on Saturday (27/6/2020).
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– PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) June 26, 2020
“Let’s demand the same justice we did for George Floyd,” actress Krystle D’souza said. AFP.
State politicians, social activists and lawyers Jignesh Mevani wrote that ” George Floyd India very much”.
“Will Indians take to the streets in the thousands like in America?” he wrote on Twitter.
Then Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition party, described it as “a tragedy when our protector turned into an oppressor”.
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Several reports by human rights groups in India have detailed cases of alleged torture of suspects in detention.
Their deaths are often referred to by police as suicide or natural causes.
Data from the National Human Rights Commission cited AFP stated, 3,146 people were killed in police and judicial detention in 2017-2018.
“Violence during detention and torture is so rampant in India that it is almost routine,” he said in a report.
“This is the worst excess of civil servants assigned to enforce the law,” he continued as quoted AFP.
Activists say the police are rarely found guilty in these cases.
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