Perpetrators of Mohammadpur rape must not be able to get away
A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced former Brazil international Dani Alves to four and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of raping a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.
That justice for rape survivors is a mirage in this country is no news, with a miserable conviction rate of three percent in rape cases.
The 32-year-old batsman was arrested in November last year just hours after his country lost to England in their final Twenty20 World Cup match in Australia.
This case is yet another tragic example of how unsafe this country is for women.
Despite unwavering support from her counterparts and from political offices as high up as the Spanish prime minister’s, Hermoso’s words have resulted in the same inaction from authorities.
Prosecutors at Spain's top criminal court said Monday they had opened a preliminary investigation into Luis Rubiales' forcible kiss on the lips of World Cup player Jenni Hermoso on grounds it could constitute a crime of "sexual assault".
Trigger Warning: This article mentions sexual and domestic abuse, trauma, and issues of mental health
Brazil defender Dani Alves asked a Spanish court on Thursday to be freed on bail while he waits to be tried for rape.
A Dhaka University student lodges a case against a bus helper for allegedly verbally abusing her in a local bus on her way to Gabtoli from Manikganj.
A Habiganj court sends a teenage boy arrested on charge of sexually harassing a schoolgirl to Tongi Juvenile Correction Centre.
The New York Magazine photographed 35 women who say they have been raped or assaulted by Bill Cosby and placed them on its front cover, reports Mashable.
In a discreet letter slipped to a teacher last week, a young schoolgirl in Mumbai writes that her father has been raping her and her mother, who was witness to these sexual assaults, did nothing to help, reports NDTV.
The contradictory remarks of the state minister for home and officials of Rab and police, regarding the arrest of sexual assaulters during the Pahela Baishakh celebrations, are both perplexing and disappointing.
State minister for home claims some of the women assaulters on Dhaka University campus have been caught, but neither police or Rab agree to the claim.
Forensic report of the policewoman allegedly gang-raped by her estranged husband and his cohorts on June 14 at Khilgaon finds evidence of sexual intercourse with the victim.
Afia (not her real name) was not accompanied by any of her family members, but she showed no signs of jitters. While many in the vessel turned pale in panic due to want of food and water in the perilous sea, the beautiful young girl held her nerves.
A few days ago, a Garo woman was abducted from a busy street in Kuril in the capital while she was waiting for transport and was gang raped in a moving microbus.
Rights organisations have been protesting the insensitivity and sometimes discrimination shown by law enforcers when dealing with cases of sexual assault and rape.
