A gang who raped and killed a student in Delhi have been executed after nearly seven years on death row. 23-year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh was raped by six men on a moving bus in the Indian city before dying from her injuries two weeks later.
The crimes against Nirbhaya - or 'the fearless one' as she was coined in the press before her mum said she wanted her real name to be used - caused shock waves throughout the world and have led to the introduction of new rape laws.
On Friday morning, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh became the first criminals since 2015 to be executed in India after being convicted of the rape and murder.
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