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B'desh: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment

B'desh: Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment

Dhaka, Apr 18 (UNI) Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and set on fire at her school in Bangladesh.
Less than two weeks earlier, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her headmaster, according to a report by Mir Sabbir BBC Bengali, Dhaka.
Her courage in speaking out against sexual assault, her death five days after being set alight and everything that happened in-between has gripped Bangladesh and brought attention to the vulnerability of sexual harassment victims in this conservative South Asian country.

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