I was reading this news story from India, which should point out the advantages of living in a country where we do have basic freedoms and protections from situations like this one. Lawyers tied a young man to a tree and beat him outside a court in India for refusing to marry one of their relatives, an official said on Wednesday.
The group of laywers surrounded the victim when he arrived at a court in the Taj Mahal town of Agra to settle a dispute over marrying the niece of one of the lawyers. This was caught on camera by Indian TV channels who showed the abusive lawyers tearing off the man's shirt, tying him to a tree trunk and cutting bald patches into his hair. The 22-year-old victim was then beaten up.
Supposedly the bar association in that town is looking into the incident but it really does give one pause when thinking about the types of injustices people face.
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