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Gita Sahgal ((カシミール語:गीता सहगल (Devanagari), گیتا سہگل (Nastaleeq))), born in Bombay, India, is a writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, a director of prize-winning documentary films, and a women's rights and human rights activist. She has been a co-founder and active member of women's organisations.〔〔 She has also been head of Amnesty International's Gender Unit, and has opposed the oppression of women in particular by religious fundamentalists.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women Against Fundamentalisms | Variant 16 )〕 In February 2010 she was suspended by Amnesty as head of its Gender Unit after she was quoted by ''The Sunday Times'' criticising Amnesty for its high-profile associations with Moazzam Begg, director of the campaign group CAGE (formerly Cageprisoners), that represents men detained at Guantanamo under extrajudicial conditions. She referred to him as "Britain's most famous supporter of the Taliban". Amnesty responded that she was suspended "for not raising these issues internally." Speaking in her support were the writer Salman Rushdie, the journalist Christopher Hitchens and others, who also criticised Amnesty for this affiliation. Begg disputed her claims of his jihadi connections and said that he did not consider anyone a terrorist who had not been convicted of terrorism. On 1 March 2014, Begg was charged with providing terrorist training and funding terrorism overseas, regarding Syria, and appeared at Westminster Magistrates court. Begg entered a plea of not guilty and was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 14 March 2014. On 1 October 2014, the charges against Begg were dropped and he was released from custody.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29442623〕 In April 2010, Amnesty said that due to irreconcilable differences of view, Sahgal would leave Amnesty on 9 April. ==Early life and education== Gita Sahgal was born in India, the daughter of the novelist Nayantara Sahgal. She was raised as a Hindu, and says she is now an atheist.〔 She is a great-niece of former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and the granddaughter of his sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amnesty suspends Nehru kin Gita Sahgal – NewsofAP.com – Andhra Pradesh News, Andhra News ,Andhra Pradesh, Telugu News )〕 Schooled first in India, she moved to England in 1972, where she attended and graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She returned to India in 1977, and began working in the civil rights movement. She moved back to England in 1983.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gita Sahgal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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