http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081110/FOREIGN/554213680/1103/ART Suspects in bombings win damages for tortureShaikh Azizur Rahman, Foreign Correspondent
People paying tribute to the victims of a bombing a few days after the attack in Hyderabad, India, in 2007. Mahesh Kumar / AP Photo KOLKATA // Twenty-one Muslim men who claim they were tortured in custody after being arrested in connection to three terror attacks but were later found innocent, are to receive compensation from a state government. The men, aged from 17 to 25, were arrested by police in 2007 and detained for up to six months after blasts at Mecca Masjid, Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat Bhandar in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, killed 55 people in total. However, Arshad Ali Khan, one of the men involved, said nothing could compensate for the torture they had gone through in the custody of police. "In this [Hindu-majority] society I am still a terrorist in the eyes of many who believe I am a Huji [Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami] terrorist. All along my life I have to live with this stigma. What will this compensation do?" Ms Hashmi said the compensation package was a "cruel joke". Following the blasts in May and September police picked up more than 60 suspects, all Muslims, from across the state. Ms Hashmi said linking those videos to the 2007 blasts was "ridiculous". "Such terror attacks [on public places, like those that occurred recently] and killing of innocents, do not help ordinary Muslims or Islamic militants achieve anything. |
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