GUWAHATI, India, Oct 4 (Reuters) - An Indian woman who has been on hunger strike for six years against human rights abuses in the remote northeastern state of Manipur shifted her fight to the capital New Delhi on Wednesday.
Thirty-four-year-old Irom Sharmila Chanu has become an iconic figure for the people of Manipur since launching her hunger strike in late 2000 after soldiers shot 10 young men at a bus stop in a small town in Manipur.
She says she will fast until the government repeals the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which gives soldiers sweeping powers to kill suspected rebels, with virtual immunity from prosecution.
Shortly after beginning her fast, Sharmila was arrested and charged with attempted suicide. Since then authorities have been force-feeding her through a nasal tube in the government-run hospital in Manipur’s capital Imphal.
The maximum term for her offence is one year and police have been in the habit of releasing her every year, only to rearrest her the following day.
This year a small group of supporters and human rights activists took advantage of her day of freedom to smuggle her through Imphal’s high security airport and put her on a plane to New Delhi.
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Mattoo, a final year law student of Delhi University, was allegedly raped and then strangled in her Vasant Kunj, New Delhi residence on January 29, 1996.
The accused Santosh Kumar Singh, son of Inspector General JP Singh, was a fellow student who had been stalking the girl in person and over the phone.
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