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jayaraj (60) and bennicks emmanuel (31), a father-son duo were shopkeepers in the town of sattankulam in tamil nadu, india. they were arrested on june 19th because they had kept their shop open in the evening beyond the govt. imposed covid-19 curfew. they were verbally assaulted, beaten, sexually brutalized and later succumbed to their injuries. fenix died on june 22nd due to an internal hemorrhage and jayaraj was running a high fever and was bleeding when he passed away on june 23rd. the police officers responsible have a previous history of violence and sexual assault. the town has erupted into protests and shop keepers all over the state have gone on strike in solidarity with the victims. the police officers have only been suspended. here is an article that gives more details about what has happened. here is a twitter thread that details their brutalization (TW: extremely graphic details... do not read if you are sensitive to this).

how can you help?

sign this petition demanding that the 13 police officers (including the two who did most of the brutalizing) involved be fired, arrested and charged with murder and every human rights violation they have committed.

send an email to the tamil nadu state government and state human rights commission using this email template. it'll only take 5 minutes.

this twitter user created a HTML link that self composes the email with all the fields filled in. please send the mail!