17 Aug 2015

India's Daughter - Leslee Udwin

From Afternoons, 1:14 pm on 17 August 2015

Jyoti Singh, a physiotherapy student, was brutally gang-raped and tortured to death by six men in a moving bus in New Delhi on December 16, 2012. The crimes against the 23-year-old led to widespread protests throughout India. In 2013, four men were sentenced to death after they were convicted of rape and murder. A fifth man died in Tihar Jail. The sixth, who was under the age of 18, was given a three-year sentence. Leslee Udwin, is the director and producer of the documentary, India's Daughter.

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