Chomsky, others seek justice for Soni Sori
Chhattisgarh woman allegedly tortured by police on the charge that she was a Maoist.
Noam Chomsky, liberal philosopher and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has joined a list of close to 250 Indian and foreign intellectuals in an open letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, protesting the brutal treatment meted out to Soni Sori, a Chhattisgarh woman said to have been tortured by police on unproven allegations that she was a Maoist.
In the letter signed by Professor Chomsky and others, including Jean Dreze, Harsh Mander, Anand Patwardhan, Aruna Roy, and Arundhati Roy, the group called for immediate medical attention to Ms. Sori, 35, who was allegedly stripped, electrocuted and tortured, physically and sexually.
After the Supreme Court ordered an independent medical examination of Ms. Sori at NRS Medical College, Kolkata, doctors found stones lodged in her vagina and rectum.
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