The social activist Zafar Hussein was beaten to death in Rajasthan for resisting photography of women defecating in open.
A statement by the CPI (ML)’s Pratapgarh district committee stated that, on June 16, Hussein was kicked, punched and beaten to death by municipal council employees at the instigation of Nagar Parishad commissioner Ashok Jain, who ordered to take photographs and videos of women from the Bagwasa Kachi village when they were going to defecate in the open.
Zafar himself had submitted a memorandum to the Nagar Parishad a few days back protesting against the campaign of public shaming and bullying of women for defecating in the open, the statement added.
“In the memorandum, he had demanded community toilets and repairing of the non-functional public latrines constructed under the Swacch Bharat campaign. He had also unsuccessfully sought to submit the memorandum to the District Magistrate (DM) who had refused to accept it.”
“All over the country, sanitation workers are fighting for their dignity and rights against oppressive and inhuman working conditions. It is highly unfortunate that the Rajasthan Government, which denies sanitation workers their due rights, used them as fodder in the public shaming and lynching campaign” the statement added.
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