
Indian police accused of sexually harassing journalists at protest
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Young people have been protesting against large-scale changes to voter rolls by the Election Commission Three female journalists have accused police officers in India of sexual harassment during street protests in the capital Delhi.
年轻人一直抗议选举委员会对选民名册进行大规模修改 三名女记者指控印度警察在首都德里街头抗议期间进行性骚扰。
The claims were made on Saturday after the force detained scores of young people calling for the resignation of the chief election commissioner.
周六,警方拘留了数十名要求首席选举专员辞职的年轻人后提出了这一指控。
In a post on social media, Delhi Police said its New Delhi District had received the complaint, and it had been transferred to its crime branch for a "fair and impartial" inquiry.
德里警方在社交媒体上发帖称,新德里地区已收到投诉,并已将其移交给犯罪部门进行“公平公正”的调查。
Thousands of protesters gathered in Delhi and Mumbai cities for a third day on Sunday demanding that Gyanesh Kumar step down over large-scale changes to voter rolls.
周日,数千名抗议者连续第三天聚集在德里和孟买城市,要求贾内什·库马尔因选民名册的大规模变动而下台。
The Election Commission says the exercise is intended to remove duplicate and ineligible entries - and so far, 130 million names have been struck off the voters' list.
选举委员会表示,此次行动的目的是删除重复和不合格的条目——到目前为止,已有 1.3 亿人的名字被从选民名单上删除。
Videos online show people being physically dragged away from the Jantar Mantar protest site in central Delhi.
网上视频显示,人们被拖离德里市中心的简塔·曼塔天文台抗议地点。
The accusations by the women journalists include inappropriate touching by some police.
女记者的指控包括一些警察的不当触摸。
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said women fear for their safety and the home ministry must "answer for this".
反对党领袖拉胡尔·甘地表示,女性担心自己的安全,内政部必须“为此负责”。
"Police dragged me by my hair," Aahna Singh, an activist and student at Jawaharlal Nehru University told Reuters news agency during the protests.
“警察揪着我的头发拖拽我,”贾瓦哈拉尔尼赫鲁大学的活动人士、学生阿娜·辛格在抗议期间告诉路透社。
She said the police were resorting to "brutality".
她说警方正在诉诸“暴力”。
The Press Club of India has demanded immediate action on the complaints against police officers, saying it was "shocked and dismayed" by the treatment of journalists.
印度新闻俱乐部要求立即对针对警察的投诉采取行动,并表示对记者的待遇感到“震惊和沮丧”。
"Behaviour of this kind cannot be normalised in a democracy.
“这种行为在民主国家不可能正常化。
Journalists must be allowed to work freely, without fear, and document those who gather to raise various issues," it said in a statement. Demonstrators scuffle with police during a protest in New Delhi over the alleged assault The protesters say the voter-roll revision will benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
必须允许记者自由地工作,没有恐惧,记录那些聚集在一起提出各种问题的人,”它在一份声明中说。 新德里抗议涉嫌袭击事件期间,示威者与警察发生扭打 抗议者表示,选民名册修订将使总理纳伦德拉·莫迪的印度人民党(BJP)受益。
The Election Commission says the exercise is intended to remove duplicate and ineligible entries.
选举委员会表示,此举的目的是删除重复和不合格的条目。
It says the last revision was done nearly a quarter of a century ago and the voters' list needs to be updated to account for those who have died, left the country or are registered in more than one place as they've moved to a new address.
它说,最后一次修订是在近四分之一个世纪前完成的,选民名单需要更新,以考虑那些已经死亡、离开该国或在搬到新地址时在多个地方登记的人。
But the exercise has been mired in controversy from the start with the opposition parties accusing Kumar of manipulating voters' list to favour the BJP during elections.
但这项活动从一开始就陷入了争议,反对党指责库马尔在选举期间操纵选民名单以支持印度人民党。
Both the BJP and the Election Commission have rejected the accusations.
印度人民党和选举委员会都否认了这些指控。
The protesters have included supporters of the influential Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that began as an online satirical movement. The pressure group recorded its first major victory in July when it forced the then Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign after weeks of protests calling for education reforms.
抗议者中包括颇具影响力的蟑螂简塔党 (CJP) 的支持者,该党最初是一场网络讽刺运动。 该压力团体在七月份取得了第一次重大胜利,迫使当时的教育部长达门德拉·普拉丹(Dharmendra Pradhan)在要求教育改革的抗议活动持续数周后辞职。
The CJP called for the latest protest after a report in The Indian Express, external said that Kumar's two fellow election commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, had formally objected at least 14 times over 10 months to decisions and orders they said had been issued without their knowledge.
《印度快报》外部报道称,库马尔的两名选举委员同事苏赫比尔·辛格·桑杜(Sukhbir Singh Sandhu)和维韦克·乔希(Vivek Joshi)在 10 个月内至少 14 次正式反对他们声称在他们不知情的情况下发布的决定和命令,CJP 呼吁发起最新的抗议。
The differences were reported to be mostly over the controversial revision of the country's electoral rolls known as the Special Intensive Revision, or SIR, which began last year.
据报道,分歧主要在于去年开始的对该国选民名册进行的有争议的修订,即“特别强化修订”(SIR)。
The Election Commission has defended its way of working and said in a statement that "differing views" were part of the "decision-making process" and that all the decisions were taken unanimously.
选举委员会为其工作方式进行了辩护,并在一份声明中表示,“不同意见”是“决策过程”的一部分,所有决定都是一致做出的。
But the revelations sparked a furore, with opposition leaders demanding Kumar's resignation.
但这一爆料引发了轩然大波,反对派领导人要求库马尔辞职。
India's 'cockroach' protesters are back - this time asking poll chief to resign Why India's Election Commission is in the eye of a storm - again
印度“蟑螂”抗议者卷土重来,这次要求民意调查负责人辞职 为什么印度选举委员会再次陷入风暴中心
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