2019年4月3日 · On a spring evening in 1989, Deepak Ahluwalia pressed a hot iron to his wife's face, her hair gripped tightly in his fist. The iron burned her skin as she struggled in his grasp, leaving a mark...

2021年11月7日 · One evening in 1989, Kiranjit Ahluwalia's husband pressed a hot iron against her face - after a decade of abuse, this was the moment she snapped. This is the story of a south Asian woman and mother, who suffered years of domestic violence and ended up …

In 1977, at the age of 22, Kiranjit left her home of Chak Kalal in Punjab to travel to Canada where she visited her sister. Following this on 21 July 1979, she traveled to the UK where she married her husband, Deepak, whom she had met only once.

2019年7月26日 · When Kiranjit Ahluwalia was jailed for life for setting fire to her husband Deepak in May 1989, a small band of dedicated activists picked up a baton that Kiranjit’s legal team had dropped.

2007年4月3日 · Kiranjit, 51, killed her husband Deepak in London in 1989. "The day I killed him I felt liberated. I knew I had to go to jail but life was already a jail for me in that marriage," says...

2019年4月6日 · Thirty years ago, Kiranjit Ahluwalia set her husband on fire after a decade of domestic abuse at his hands. He died and she was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. She tells...

Southall Black Sisters led Kiranjit Ahluwalia’s campaign, with support from Justice for Women. Kiranjit was persuaded into an arranged marriage by her brothers. Both her parents had died by the time she was 16 and so at the age of 23 she had …