{"id":549957,"date":"2026-04-25T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549957\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:20:13","slug":"communities-asked-where-are-we-safe-after-rape-of-sikh-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549957\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities asked &#8216;where are we safe?&#8217; after rape of Sikh woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained: &#8220;We held a community meeting for women and girls and the consensus was that we were not safe on the streets.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As details of the crime emerged, many felt they were not even safe in their own homes, Kaur added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So women were asking the question &#8216;where are we safe&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kaur pointed out there was nothing unusual about the lead-up to the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim, in her 20s, &#8220;went to work, she did some shopping, she took public transport home, she was walking in a very well-lit area and she went back to her home&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Women and girls, especially those women of colour, of South Asian descent, saw themselves, saw their daughters, saw their sisters through this woman&#8217;s experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And there was a further issue troubling communities &#8211; the violence was not isolated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She explained: &#8220;We held a community meeting for women and girls and the consensus was that we were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}