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Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore
The victim died in the early hours of Saturday morning, a hospital official said
A female student gang-raped on a bus in India's capital Delhi has died at a Singapore hospital, doctors say.
"The patient passed away peacefully at 4:45am on 29 Dec 2012," a statement from the hospital said. The patient's family had been by her side, it added.
The 23-year-old had arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.
The attack earlier this month triggered violent public protests in India that left one police officer dead.
Six men have been arrested and two police officers have been suspended following the 16 December attack.
"The patient had remained in an extremely critical condition since admission to Mount Elizabeth Hospital," a statement from hospital chief executive Kelvin Loh said.
"She had suffered from severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain. She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome," the statement went on.
"We are humbled by the privilege of being tasked to care for her in her final struggle," Mr Loh said.
A team of eight specialists had tried to keep the patient stable, but her condition continued to deteriorate over the two days she was at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, he added.
The woman's case has sparked public debate as well as several days of protests across India
Officials from the High Commission of India had also been present when the patient passed away. The Indian home minister said the government had decided to send the victim overseas on the recommendation of her doctors.
Rising anger
The victim and her friend had been to see a film when they boarded the bus in the Munirka area of Delhi, intending to travel to Dwarka in the south-west of the city.
Police said she was raped for nearly an hour, and both she and her companion were beaten with iron bars and thrown out of the moving bus and into the street.
On arrival at the hospital in Singapore, doctors said that as well as a "prior cardiac arrest, she also had infection of her lungs and abdomen, as well as significant brain injury".
The government has tried to halt rising public anger by announcing a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.
These include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.
The government has also said that it will post the photos, names and addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to shame them.
It has set up two committees - one looking into speeding up trials of cases involving sexual assaults on women, and the other to examine the lapses that might have led to the incident in Delhi.
But the protesters say the government's pledge to seek life sentences for the attackers is not enough - many are calling for the death penalty.
![TOWER of LIES: The Canary Wharf tower stands as a tower of the lies that add to POVERTY in the area
0700 [0645] Hrs GMT
London
Friday
28 December 2012
The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary [3]
TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL caught in acts of gloating in effect of its [Council’s] role in causing poverty in the East End.
Here is the first part of the AADHIKAR Media examination of the obscenity of the Council taking part in Propaganda that its housing staff [questionable] are donating to a food bank.
The Council mist publish the numbers of families that it [Tower Hamlets Council] knows have been served with eviction notices or have been "visited" informally by staff from various "social landlords" - all in "partnership with the Council" in the perpetration of policies of negligence and irresponsibility breaking all pledges and commitments given when the Council housing stocks where transferred to those falsely-called [registered] “social landlord” outfits that are in effect operations of organised violators of the rights of people and the breakers of families, persons and others in the population of the East End Borough - and been threatened with being ousted, moved out of their homes, their neighbourhoods and their communities.
COUNCIL CAUSING POVERTY TO MANY and then concealing the facts. And managing to participate, vicariously via employees, in PR exercises that must be treated as the negligent Council’s gloating.
Such irresponsible behaviour by Tower Hamlets Council can be seen in this [below] misleading, half-baked piece promoted via the website of the n”ow merged East London Advertiser”.
[To be continued]
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/housing_staff_help_poor_families_through_tower_hamlets_foodbank_1_
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