02-10-2010, 12:30 PM
[url="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100210/jsp/frontpage/story_12088582.jsp"]Amnesty suspends Nehru kin[/url]
- Row over prisoner released from Guantanamo Bay
Karan Thapar cousin.
- Row over prisoner released from Guantanamo Bay
Quote:London, Feb. 9: Gita Sahgal, daughter of novelist Nayantara Sahgal and granddaughter of Jawaharlal Nehruââ¬â¢s sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit, has been suspended from her job with Amnesty International in London for blowing the whistle on the human rights organisation.
Sahgal, 53, who has long battled suppression of women by fundamentalists, seems to have paid the price for suggesting that Amnesty has got too close to extremist Islamic groups.
Karan Thapar cousin.