THE rights of Muslim women are as fragile as ever before. An unsettling reminder of the challenges they face is the remission of sentences given to the rapists and killers of Bilkis Bano and her family, during the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
Zakia Soman, 57, who has been in the forefront of speaking up for Muslim women, says it is an article of faith for her and other activists of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) to oppose the remission.
But this is for them just one more long battle in the journey which began in 2007 when they sought. . .
