NEW DELHI (AP) — Saying their crime shocked the conscience of India, the prosecutor in the fatal New Delhi gang rape called today for all four convicted rapists to be hanged, while one of the defendants shouted out his innocence as police drove him into the courthouse.
It was not clear which of the four men was shouting, because his face was obscured behind the police van’s heavy metal mesh, but he repeatedly called out, “I am innocent! I am innocent!” as the van drove past a scrum of reporters.
A court convicted the men Tuesday in the December gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a brutal crime that unleashed a wave of public anger over the treatment of Indian women and a longunspoken epidemic of sexual violence. The woman died two weeks after the attack.
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