New Delhi: Defiant protests for women's safety

http://www.euronews.com/ Thousands of Indians protested on the streets of New Delhi to demand better safety measures for women, a week after a young student was gang-raped and thrown out of a moving bus.

The latest street protest came even though the government had banned gatherings of more than five people to try to put the brakes on the increasingly angry outbursts.

The 23-year-old is critically ill in hospital. Her ordeal ignited public fury in a city where rape is frighteningly commonplace. Official crime figures show an attack is reported every 18 hours.

Some protesters hid under police vehicles calling for justice. They want authorities to act to make the city safer for women. Some even want the death penalty for rapists.

The head of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, felt the pressure from the streets and emerged from her home after midnight to talk to the protesters.

Officials have promised more police patrols covering workplaces and entertainment districts, the installation of electronic measures on public transport, and fast-track courts to ensure quick verdicts in rape and sexual assault cases.

So far there is no official timetable for the proposed changes.

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[Gurjit singh Bhullar]

fuck delhi police fuck our corrupt government..we need revolution Indians.Long Live India

[windatekili]

fuck the police 

[naokibessie]

Please support lndian women to have the fair human right.

[John Micheal]

never thing it happen to others is a news god forbidden make a way or rule shouldn’t happen again to anyone’s life in a coming days. God save these Country India.

[John Micheal]

I am an Indian definitely feel pain on seeing such act but same way I felt furious on such mob who come to give a voice for a girl or any humanity not to stage such situation to anyone. Don’t you imagine to those Tamil girls being raped & killed by Sri Lankan army.Where all you people went those people cried to give a hand or @least a voice to save their daughter mother & wife what are we doing?

[John Micheal]

shame on you people just on a girl who get rape gathered for nearly more than a week what about to those TAMIL GIRLS being raped by Singali army when human rights violets such act can't you guys have a time to do such protest even a min...

They are just Sri Lankan Tamil not Indian right?

[Alice Zaharian]

police are corrupt everywhere cause of greed for money and power we must all remember to be good to everyone we meet u just never know when someone may snap.

[rjbwish13]

It is an shame, Sonia Antonio the Italian mafia is the biggest chauvinist hell bent on suppressing justice for Mothers, sisters and daughters.

[neordinarus]

Now that's what I call civil society.

[schmuddelfinger]

lol believing into police in india... one of the most corrupt police in the world..