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The main suspect in the murder of gay Punjabi influencer Mad Sandhu is arrested · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: the main suspect in the murder of gay Punjabi influencer
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  Speaker 2: Madh Sandhu has been arrested. Madh was shot by two
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  Speaker 2: men on a motorbike in Amritsar in northwest India earlier
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  Speaker 2: this month. It's thought he was around 30 years old.
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  Speaker 2: Police are holding Jobanpreet Singh from Mumbai and say three
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  Speaker 2: guns and ammunition have been found. They've been investigating possible
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  Speaker 2: links to criminal gangs. and whether this could have been
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  Speaker 2: a contract killing. Karanjeet Kaur is from Indian news outlet,
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  Speaker 3: In India, the crime of being unapologetically yourself can become
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  Speaker 3: your death sentence. And any amorphous definition of culture becomes
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  Speaker 3: a license for any man to kill or unleash violence.
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  Speaker 3: Sandhu points out that those who believe that queer people
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  Speaker 3: are destroying Punjab's culture ought to remember that this is
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  Speaker 3: a land that has never proscribed homosexuality.
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  Speaker 2: Mad was also a make-up artist and LGBTQ plus advocate.
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  Speaker 2: He'd been targeted with lots of online threats and abuse
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  Speaker 2: because of his authenticity. Police have made about a dozen
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  Speaker 2: arrests so far. Next, a manslaughter conviction's been overturned in
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  Speaker 2: shot 36-year-old Paris Lee, who he'd been intimate with, in
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  Speaker 2: 2022 in Memphis... said it was self-defence but got six
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  Speaker 2: years in prison. And appeals led to a retrial being
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  Speaker 2: ordered because the first trial wasn't told Paris was trans.
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  Speaker 2: Wards' defence teams argued he might have got a more
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  Speaker 2: sympathetic hearing if jurors had known. Plus, claims he'd feared
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  Speaker 2: for his safety could have been seen as more plausible.
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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily. Transgender hospital patients in England are going to
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  Speaker 2: it could be based on gender identity. New guidance from
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  Speaker 2: new mayor of Krakow's withdrawn the city's official support for Pride.
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