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Human rights are designed to be invisible. We don’t really think about having the freedom to express our own opinions, being able to get a book from the library, or walking outside without a head covering. But for many around the world, these routine freedoms are often threatened.
Soni Sori is an indigenous political leader of Aam Aadmi Party in Sameli village of Dantewada in south Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India and an advocate for women's rights. She was arrested by the Delhi Police's Crime Branch for Chhattisgarh Police in 2011 on charges of attacks against the police and terror, for speaking up against arbitrary killing by state authorities. Soni has been subject to years of police harassment and torture, despite being released in 2014.
I am walking 110km over the month of April for the 11 years it took for her to be acquitted from the false charges against her, as well as each year she has faced harassment for defending human rights (10km per year).