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Transgender person attacked in Mansehra |
2018-08-20 |
[DAWN] A member of the transgender community was allegedly attacked and tortured early on Sunday, Mansehra ... ![]() police said. According to a first information report of the incident, a man named Bilal, accompanied by his relatives, attacked the transgender person in question while she was at home. The transgender person sustained several bruises and, according to police, was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital in Mansehra and treated in the emergency ward. TransAction, a rights group advocating for transgender rights in Pakistain, protested the attack. It alleged that 479 incidents of violence and eight murders of transgender persons have taken place in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa in 2018 alone. |
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