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Sidelining a woman’s freedom of choice

The UN’s fact-finding mission recently found Mahsa Amini’s custodial death as ‘unlawful’, and the subsequent state crackdown, an ‘egregious human rights violations’. In September 2022, Mahsa died in the custody of Iran’s Morality Police for violation of the Islamic Republic’s mandatory ‘hijab norms’.

Communities come together in observing Muharram

A densely-populated town of Chapdany, where people from the neighbouring states have been residing for decades working in the jute mills, people from both Hindu and Muslim communities are residing in perfect harmony.