Indian female activists hold placards during a protest at the district court Saket in New Delhi on January 21, 2013. The father of a student who died after being gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi called for swift justice and for her attackers to be hanged as five men accused of her murder prepared to go on trial. A defence lawyer tried to persuade India's top court that the trial should be shifted out of the capital, but the father of the 23-year-old victim said her family would only rest once a fast-track court had handed down its verdict. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash SINGH