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Disband Anti-Romeo Squads Immediately, Say Women’s Rights Activists Empty Disband Anti-Romeo Squads Immediately, Say Women’s Rights Activists

Post by Guest Tue Apr 04, 2017 1:49 pm

New Delhi: Advocates of women’s rights including activists Aruna Roy, Kavita Srivastava, Kalyani Menon Sen and lawyers Indira Jaising and Vrinda Grover, among others, have issued a statement demanding that ‘anti-Romeo squads’ in Uttar Pradesh be disbanded immediately, and the FIRs and complaints against advocate Prashant Bhushan be dropped.

Anti-Romeo squads of plainclothes policemen as well as vigilante civilians have been dispatched across UP apparently to ‘protect women’, but instead were reported to be harassing young couples who were found together in public spaces. These squads, the activists’ statement says, cannot address the real issue around harassment and sexual violence, but will instead further limit women’s freedoms by indulging in moral policing.”It has already come to light that in many cases, these ‘anti-Romeo squads’ have become an even greater source of harassment and fear for women and men,” they have said.

https://thewire.in/121303/anti-romeo-squads-activists/

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