カテゴリー: Rape and sexual assault
Moves by broadcaster NHK, McDonald’s, Nissan and Suntory follow allegations against late Johnny & Associates founderSome of Japan’s best-known companies have cut ties with a powerful talent agency whose founder was accused of sexually assaulting hu…
Julie Fujishima, niece of late pop mogul, apologises and acknowledges agency founder’s abuse for first timeThe president of Japan’s biggest boyband talent agency has resigned after acknowledging for the first time that its late founder sexually abused …
Sexual violence is rife across the country, but Dr Summaiya Syed’s newly opened centre in Karachi offers a ‘groundbreaking’ facility that aims to help turn the tideFor Dr Summaiya Syed, a set of rooms dedicated solely to her patients was the fulfilment…
Thousands of children born to victims of rape during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971 were adopted by foreign families. Now, many want to discover their rootsThe Bangladeshi children who say they were wrongly taken for adoptionJane Radika was s…
Despite reforms, campaigners say Mumbai killing proves lack of progress in protecting students since 2012 ‘Nirbhaya’ gang-rapeThe list of complaints made by female students living at the women’s hostel in the south of Mumbai is depressingly long and go…
Indians were shocked when social media exposed a mob abusing minority Kuki women. But similar incidents have been happening with impunity for monthsAs footage emerged last week of two women in the state of Manipur being forcibly stripped, paraded naked…
After a decade of delays and threats, Amena was the last of seven rape survivors resolved to fight. The verdict has been welcomed by Muslims facing increasing discrimination in IndiaOn a hot and quiet afternoon, a woman lies on a wooden charpoy under a…
In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told• Warning: graphic information in this report may upse…
Dawlat Khan had received a life sentence for the rape of a young deaf woman but a council of elders intervened to offer a compromise A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.Dawlat Khan…
Beijing court finds Chinese-born singer raped three women in November and December 2020A Beijing court has sentenced the Chinese-born Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape, just over a year afte…
Six men charged over deadly attack on girls, aged 15 and 17, of Dalit casteTwo sisters in Uttar Pradesh have been found raped, murdered and hanging from a tree in the latest incident of sexual violence to shock India.The bodies of the girls, aged 15 an…
Demonstrators demand Gujarat government revoke decision on men convicted over rape of Muslim woman Bilkis Bano in 2002Hundreds of people have held demonstrations in several parts of India to protest against a recent government decision to free 11 men w…
Gujarat frees men serving life sentences for rape, and for murder of three-year-old daughter and other relativesA Muslim woman who was gang-raped by a Hindu mob, which also murdered her three-year-old daughter and 13 other members of her family, has sp…
Calls grow for repeal of statute of limitations and widening of definition of rape after former model makes allegations on TikTokA young woman’s account on TikTok of being drugged, raped and then blackmailed by a beauty pageant organiser when she was 1…
Zahir Jaffer tortured and beheaded Noor Mukadam, in July last year, in case that sparked outrage over violence against womenA court in Islamabad has sentenced to death the tycoon’s son who raped and murdered Noor Mukadam, a case that sparked outrage in…