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A Special CBI Court today passed a life sentence on Bihar school teacher Rupam Pathak, holding her guilty of culpable homicide of Bihar's Purnea MLA from BJP Raj Kishor Kesri. This sentence is a gross miscarriage of justice, exposing the gender bias in a range of institutions and the hollowness of the Bihar Government's claims of 'empowerment' of women. .
The Bihar CM was forced to order a CBI enquiry into the Rupam Pathak case precisely because of public protests against the Bihar Government's attempts to smear Rupam Pathak's character and suppress the history of her complaints of rape and sexual harassment against the BJP MLA Kesri and his aide BN Rai. But the CBI .
enquiry has merely probed the killing of Kesri, and has failed to investigate Rupam Pathak's complaint of sexual harassment. Not only that, BN Rai was not even arrested -allowing him to be free to influence and threaten witnesses. While rape-accused BN Rai remained free, Rupam Pathak herself was denied bail, and prevented from having any opportunity to clear her name! · .
What led a young school teacher to publicly stab an MLA of a ruling party, in full view, in his own home? Rupam's long-standing complaint of rape and sexual harassment by Kesri and his aide BN Rai had been ignored by the Bihar police and ruling political establishment of which Kesri was a powerful and pampered leader. Seeing no hope of justice, Rupam, a 35-year old schooi teacher, was pushed to take the desperate step of attacking Kesri .
in his own house. .
After the incident, Deputy CM of Bihar. Sushi! Kumar Modi, was quick to declare that Rupam Pathak was a blackmailer and murderess. while Kesri was a man of pure character and a hero ofthe 1974 movement. Opposition leaders like Laloo Prasad too echoed the same. But when AIPWA and other women's groups in Bihar took up the matter, they found that Rupam Pathak had accused the MLA and his aide BN Rai of rape and sexual harassment some months before the killing, but had mysteriously withdrawn her case on the eve of the Assembly elections. What pressures forced her to do so? The CBI has failed to investigate these questions, and has also ignored .
Rupam's complaint against BN Rai. .
The Rupam verdict also ra1ses other questions. We have. time and again, come across cases where killings by men get relatively lentent sentences on the ground that these are 'crimes of passion.' Stabbing cases in street brawls resulting in deaths usually carry light sentences. Why, then, has Rupam been awarded an extremely harsh life sentence, completely failing to take into account the extreme provocation and desperation she felt, due to the faint prospect of any justice against her powerful rapists and sexual harassers? Is this not an instance .
of blatant gender bias? .
In the landmark Kiranjit Ahluwalia case of London, a woman victim of domestic violence took her husband's life, and received a harsh life sentence. But eventually, thanks to the efforts of women's groups, the sentence was relaxed, and domestic violence was recognised in future as an instance of extreme provocation. The Rupam Pathak case ought to be a similar instance in Indian jurisprudence, where acts of desperate violence by women .
who have been subjected to sexual violence ought to be seen as the result of the failure of our systems to provide a credible prospect of justice for women in cases of sexual violence. This ought to hold true specially in cases of repeated and prolonged sexual abuse or harassment, where attempts to secure justice through the police have been subverted or crushed. .
Even now, why is it that the rulers of Bihar, the police, as well as even the CBI and the court, are so eager to .
consign Rupam to jail, at the same time suppressing her accusations of rape and sexual harassment because .
they threaten the image of the ruling political alliance? .
We must demand bail and justice for Rupam Pathak, and a re-investigation by the CBI into the whole case, .
especially into Rupam Pathak's complaints of sexual violence, and the immediate arrest of BN Rai. .
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Vom 23. März bis zum 18. Mai 2014 gewährte der Kunstsammler Heiner Wemhöner Einblick in seine Sammlung, die in den Osram-Höfen in Berlin ausgestellt wurden. Er stellte etwa ein Zehntel seiner Sammlung vor, die seit den 1990er Jahren entstand und Fotografie, Malerei, Bildhauerei sowie Videokunst umfasst.
Gezeigt wurden 90 Arbeiten von 28 Künstler und Künstlerinnen:
Marina Abramovic, Darren Almond, Roger Ballen, Gauillaume Bruère, Tony Cragg, Julian Charrière, Asta Gröting, Gonkar Gyatso, Carlos Irijalba, Alfredo Jaar, Isaac Julien, Joseph Kosuth, Yue Minjun, Andreas Mühe, Michael Najjar, Helmut Newton, Hans op de Beeck, Bettina Pousttchi, Alexandra Ranner, Nicolai Rapp, Erik Schmidt, Alexandre Singh, Andrea Stappert, Marianna Uutinen, Erik van Lieshout, Erwin Wurm, Chen Xiaoyun, Yin Xiuzhen
Kurator: Philipp Bollmann
Vernissage, 22. März 2014
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Opening INSIGHTS into the Wemhöner Collection, Osram-Höfe, Berlin (Germany) 2014
From March 23 to May 18, 2014, art collector Heiner Wemhöner provided an insight into his collection, which was exhibited at the Osram-Höfe in Berlin. He presented around a tenth of his collection, which has been created since the 1990s and includes photography, painting, sculpture and video art.
On display were 90 works by 28 artists:
Marina Abramovic, Darren Almond, Roger Ballen, Gauillaume Bruère, Tony Cragg, Julian Charrière, Asta Gröting, Gonkar Gyatso, Carlos Irijalba, Alfredo Jaar, Isaac Julien, Joseph Kosuth, Yue Minjun, Andreas Mühe, Michael Najjar, Helmut Newton, Hans op de Beeck, Bettina Pousttchi, Alexandra Ranner, Nicolai Rapp, Erik Schmidt, Alexandre Singh, Andrea Stappert, Marianna Uutinen, Erik van Lieshout, Erwin Wurm, Chen Xiaoyun, Yin Xiuzhen
Curator: Philipp Bollmann
Opening, March 22, 2014