We - myself from AIPWA, @kawalpreetdu from @AISA_tweets and advocate Sneha from @HRLNIndia are in Kanth, #Moradabad to meet the Muskan and Rashid, the couple who are victims of illegal arrest, forced abortion by @UPPolice under the hateful ordinance passed by @myogiadityanath

We found that 1) Muskan is very weak after her miscarriage, and the Moradabad District Hospital where she was admitted has not given her the treatment papers, nor any course of antibiotics and painkillers to prevent post miscarriage infections that can affect fertility in future
2) The first dose of antibiotics & painkillers Muskan received is today - after we got her to speak on phone to a senior gynaecologist in Delhi, who explained that antibiotics are always prescribed following a miscarriage, to prevent infections.
3) Muskan alleges that the hospital administered abortifacient injections after which she suffered a miscarriage. What is indisputable is that the hospital deliberately failed in its duty to a patient, a) by not telling Muskan re the miscarriage b) by not prescribing antibiotics
and c) by withholding her treatment papers which every patient is supposed to receive
Moreover, how did the head of the UP State Commission for Protection of Child Rights Dr Vishesh Gupta, declare that pregnancy was intact? On whose orders did Dr Vishesh Gutpa lie?
4) Muskan told us that the police officers told them on day one itself that no case was made out against them, since a November ordinance could not apply to a July marriage anyway. Yet why did @moradabadpolice arrest Rashid and his brother Salim and take Muskan into custody?
Why did @moradabadpolice not instead arrest the Bajrang Dal goons who beat up Rashid's elder brother Salim, roughed up and abused Muskan and her mother in law, and tried to lynch Rashid's younger brother? Who will face accountability for the miscarriage & Muskan's ravaged body?
5) Muskan is an educated young woman, who met Rashid when she was living & working independently in Dehradun. They fell in love, courted each other for over a year, then got married in July 2020. Only when they went to get the marriage registered did the Bajrang Dal intervene
6) A lawyer took Rs 5000 from Rashid's mother to get the marriage registered. Either he, or someone in the bureaucracy who was part of the registration process, must have informed Bajrang Dal which pressured Muskan's mother to file an FIR under the new UP anti love ordinance.
It was heartrending to see Rashid and Salim & their mother & aunts weeping at their release from imprisonment. Lovely to see the young couple, in the midst of media noise, whisper to each other to ask how the other was doing.
May love triumph over the BJP's hateful ordinance. May India cherish its young lovers who, in breaking caste and faith boundaries, offer us hope for a new future. May Muskan's courage & confidence give us all hope.
Final point - @moradabadpolice itself approached the magistrate to inform that they've no evidence against Rashid and Salim, leading to them being freed. The truth is that were it not for @SartajAlamIndia & @joerwallen breaking this story, the police would never have backed off
Will @bainjal apologise for her fact free tweets peddling UP officials' lies, undermining journalists like @SartajAlamIndia & @joerwallen? Attached: Muskan's ultrasound report that clearly shows miscarriage, no intact foetus.
Short lesson for @bainjal - RPC, blood clots in uterus, means "retained products of conception" - that is, fetal residue left in the uterus after miscarriage/abortion. The UP officials lied, and you amplified those lies without a thought for the young woman victim of this horror.
Since @bainjal has blocked me, please, someone not yet blocked by her, bring my tweets to her notice 🙏🏾.

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The theory, which has some merit, is that since onions make you cry, it helps flush the irritants from your eyes with natural tears.

However, this is not recommended as a treatment for pepper spray and is ultimately not very effective.

Pepper spray, tear gas, mace, CN, HC, and other agents are best removed with a flush of water or, if you have the proper mixture, saline. Nothing else.

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The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

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