Briton and Australians among several people briefly detained by vigilantes in unrest over alleged attacks on womens hairA British woman and three Australians have been briefly detained by vigilantes amid mass panic in Indian-administered Kashmir over a spate of alleged “braid choppings”.
Police in the Himalayan region say they have received reports of at least 40 instances of women’s hair being forcibly slice by unidentified assailants. Related: India’s crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world’s first mass blinding? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com