Soni Sori, an adivasi school teacher, was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police under false charges of being a Maoist in October, 2011. While in custody, she was brutally tortured and sexually assaulted. As physical evidence about her torture is mounting, Soni is being pushed into an extremely precarious position. Act now for her release! Speak up against police violence and impunity!
Soni Sori is an adivasi school teacher and the warden of a government-run school for tribal children in Jabeli, Dantewada. In this war-torn district of Chhattisgarh, this was one of the few schools still operational in the countryside, till the Chhattisgarh police forced her to flee from Dantewada in early September 2011. Soni Sori has been harassed by the Dantewada police for more than a year now. The Chhattisgarh police tried to extra-judicially execute her, apprehensive that she possessed evidence to prove that false cases have deliberately been lodged against her. Fearing for her life, she fled to Delhi to seek legal help and expose the police atrocities.
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