Amnesty International, a human rights watchdog, strongly condemned the flogging of Muslim men by Indian police in Gujarat state. Amnesty has called it a “serious human rights violation” showing “utter disrespect towards the law,” minorities and human beings.
In India, the public flogging of Muslims has sparked a worldwide outage with some calling Gujarat an “ugly state to live in”.
In Gujarat, nine Muslim men were publicly flogged by plain-clothed policemen over hollow allegations of throwing stones in an ongoing Hindu religious event Garba, a collective dance for the Hindu goddess Durga.
A video of the flogging was recorded in Udhela Village which went viral on social media. In the clip, men were seen tied to a pole and flogged as the crowd including women and children cheered.
The viral clips were mostly taken down from Twitter for being graphic.
