Sexual desire or show of power?
The High Court yesterday expressed its outrage over the rape of an eight-year-old child in Magura, stating that the incident represented the highest level of injustice.
Amid vigorous protests by different quarters demanding women’s safety and the administration’s accountability in handling incidents of sexual assault, the government has promised steps to speed up judicial processes in such cases.
Recent rape incident of a 8-year-old exemplifies everything wrong with our society.
Jahangir Alam says govt to take strong measures against those who will try to curb women’s freedom
He said that the government will bring some amendments into relevant laws
Govt should properly utilise tools meant to prevent gender-based violence
Around 114 women were raped in the first three months of 2024, said Ain O Salish Kendra yesterday. Three victims were killed and one died by suicide after rape, the human rights organisation added.
I wish we lived in a world where the perpetrator, not the survivor, was blamed for their actions.
A mother-of-one has allegedly been gang-raped by several men in Balitha area of Dhamrai.
The officer-in-charge of Pabna Sadar Police Station, who allegedly arranged a marriage between a gang-rape victim and one of the alleged rapists in a bid to cover up the crime, has been closed.
A rickshaw-puller was held in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila on charge of raping four kids – two first graders and two third graders.
Tumpa (not her real name) grew up in her maternal grandfather’s house in a small village of Bogura’s Dhunat upazila and was a seventh-grade student at a nearby high school.
The Jashore woman who was allegedly raped by a police officer and his “source” in the early hours of Tuesday has said she did not name the cop for fear of repercussions.
A mother of two in Jashore alleged that a police sub-inspector and his informant raped her on Tuesday night, but police yesterday claimed that she registered a case against four persons, excluding the SI.
Four men were sued yesterday for allegedly raping four girls in Jashore, Nilphamari, and Cox’s Bazar.
Eight-year-old Imran, whose body was recovered in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali on August 25, was gang-raped by four youths before the murder, police say.
Cox’s Bazar police detain two persons in connection with the rape of two adolescent girls in the district.
A Sirajganj court yesterday sentenced a man to death in connection with a case for killing a minor girl after rape in Sadar upazila in 2014.
