Comments on: Arbitrary detention of Hijras in Bangalore (Nov 2014): communities demand justice

By: Bengaluru: No place for transgenders? – Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Bengaluru: No place for transgenders? – Citizen Matters, Bengaluru — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 05:12:20 +0000

[…] On November 26 and in the days before, police in Bangalore, India, rounded up more than 150 hijras and put them in a concentration camp. (Hijra is a traditional term, across much of South Asia, for people born males who who identify either as women or as a third gender.) At Orinam, an online resource for LGBT issues in India, human rights lawyer Gowthaman Ranganathan tells the story: […]

By: How the Transgender Bill discriminates against the very people it claims to protect - The Caravan

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:12:01 +0000

[…] powers similar to the Criminal Tribes Act, including greater surveillance and harassment. In November 2014, close to 200 Hijras in Bengaluru were arbitrarily picked up by the police and detained at the […]

By: Human Rights Campaign Reports on Arrests of Transgender Women in Bangalore | Trot Along

Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:08:30 +0000

[…] Orinam (Indian LGBT newspaper) article first reporting the arrests […]

By: Buggery and beggary. And Ferguson. | a paper bird

Buggery and beggary. And Ferguson. | a paper bird — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:56:22 +0000