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Friday, April 4, 2014
Florida State under investigation for its handling of Jameis Winston rape allegations
Florida State under investigation for its handling of Jameis Winston rape allegations
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Austin Police Chief Apologizes For His Comments About Arresting J-Walking Jogger: Hey, I’m Just Thankful We Didn’t Rape Her…
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
California Lawmakers Want To Protect Rape Victims By Updating The State’s Definition Of ‘Consent’
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Sunday, February 2, 2014
Is there rape culture in politics?
| February 3, 2014
Artist: Feminist Current
Title: Is there rape culture in politics? Jan 29 2014 panel – rabble
Year: 2014
Length: 41:06 minutes (37.64 MB)
Format: 44.1kHz, 128Kbps
Show Notes:
This episode features a panel discussion on rape culture in politics. The panel took place on January 29, 2014 at the University of British Columbia and was organized by The Canadian Women Voters Congress, the UBC AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre, and the UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Panelists are: Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer, Executive Director at Women Against Violence Against Women Rape Crisis Centre (WAVAW); Grace Lore, a PhD Candidate in Political Science at UBC; Ellen Woodsworth, an activist, a founder of Women Transforming Cities, and a former Vancouver City Councillor; and Meghan Murphy, writer, journalist, and founder of Feminist Current.
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Is there rape culture in politics?
Thursday, January 23, 2014
WH Report"s Shocking Stat: 7% of College Men Admit to Attempting Rape, Most of Them Multiple Times
A White House report released Wednesday brings to light to a shocking statistic: 7 percent of college men admit they have attempted rape, 63 percent of those have been involved in multiple assaults, averaging 6 each. And those are the ones that admit it.
No wonder then, the shocking number of victims: 1 in every 5 female students are said to be sexually assaulted, while only 1 in 8 report the attacks.
The report states that nearly 22 million American women and 1.6 million men have been raped, resulting in devastating aftereffects, such as depression, which can lead to substance abuse and a host of physical ailments that take their toll for years afterwards.
On Wednesday, President Obama vowed to take on the epidemic, and announced he had formed a White House task force to study how best to do it.
“No one is more at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted than women at our nation’s colleges and universities,” the report by the White House Council on Women and Girls read, highlighting both the devastating statistical probability of being sexually assaulted, as well as the low number of reported cases because of lingering cultural stigma.
The report also linked campus sexual assaults to drinking and drug use that can often incapacitate victims at various student parties—often at the hands of someone they know. In his announcement, the President emphasized the importance of changing the attitudes of those who perpetrate sexual asssault.
“We need to encourage young people, men and women, to realize that sexual assault is simply unacceptable,” President Obama said, pointing out that the issue affects him both as president and as the father of two daughters. “They’re going to have to summon the bravery to stand up and say so, especially when the social pressure to keep quiet or to go along can be very intense.”
The President"s emphasis on exerting pressure on schools is due to what is seen as an historic failure to respond appropriately to campus assaults. In 2011, Amherst College student Angie Epifano found her campus to be far from sympathetic when she reported a dorm room rape. She has said school counselors questioned her definition of rape, refused her request to change dorm rooms to get away from her attacker, and even had police take her to a psychiatric ward.
The Associated Press reports that the Education Department has fined several universities for their failure to accurately report sexual assaults, most notably in 2006 when Eastern Michigan University was fined a then-record $ 357,000 for not revealing that a student had been sexually assaulted and murdered in her dorm room.
Organizations like Students Active for Ending Rape (a nonprofit group that works with students in an effort to push for major policy reform regarding sexual assault) said that more than 80 percent of colleges inadequately address sexual assault on campus—nearly one quarter fail completely to deal with it, and a third don’t even comply with the Clery Act, which required colleges and universities to publically record their crime statistics each year.
President Obama announced that the task force, made up of officials in the administration, has 90 days to come up with recommendations for colleges on how to prevent assault, and how to be held accountable should they fail to do so.
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WH Report"s Shocking Stat: 7% of College Men Admit to Attempting Rape, Most of Them Multiple Times
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Group says Myanmar army uses rape as weapon of war
FILE – In this Sept. 15, 2013 photo, a woman who claims she was raped by Myanmar security forces stands in her home in Ba Gong Nar village, Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Myanmar’s transition to democracy following five decades of brutal military rule has won widespread international praise, but rights’ groups say little has changed in resource-rich border areas, where the army continues to grapple with stubborn ethnic insurgencies. As in the past, the use of sexual violence against civilians is widespread and systematic, said Tin Tin Nyo, general secretary of the Women’s League of Burma. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
FILE – In this Sept. 15, 2013 photo, a woman who claims she was raped by Myanmar security forces stands in her home in Ba Gong Nar village, Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Myanmar’s transition to democracy following five decades of brutal military rule has won widespread international praise, but rights’ groups say little has changed in resource-rich border areas, where the army continues to grapple with stubborn ethnic insurgencies. As in the past, the use of sexual violence against civilians is widespread and systematic, said Tin Tin Nyo, general secretary of the Women’s League of Burma. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A soldier in full uniform saw the 7-year-old in her front yard soon after her parents left to tend to their rice paddies in Myanmar’s restive state of Shan. She said he ordered her inside the family’s bamboo hut.
“He hit me and told me to take off my clothes,” the girl told the tightly packed courtroom in a whisper, as her alleged assailant, Maung Win Htwe, looked on, stone-faced.
“Then … he raped me.”
Rights activists in Myanmar, also known as Burma, say the army continues to use rape as a weapon of war nearly three years after President Thein Sein’s nominally civilian government ended a half-century of brutal military rule. On Tuesday, the Women’s League of Burma released a report documenting more than 100 rapes, almost all in townships plagued by stubborn ethnic insurgencies.
Nearly half were brutal gang rapes, several of the victims were children, and 28 of the women were killed or died from their injuries, said Tin Tin Nyo, the league’s general secretary. She warned that there is little hope for change until the government amends Myanmar’s constitution, which gives the military the right to independently administer all its affairs.
Ye Htut, the government’s top spokesman, did not respond to phone, email and Facebook messages seeking comment.
The report said most of the attacks occurred in border areas, particularly in the states of Shan, where the 7-year-old lives, and Kachin. Perpetrators are rarely, if ever, punished.
Though it handed over formal control of the country, the army continues to heavily influence almost all facets of government, and holds a quarter of all seats in parliament.
Few prominent officials have criticized the military over sexual violence — not even opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent more than 15 years under house arrest under the former ruling junta.
Last month, at a press conference in the main city of Yangon, Suu Kyi was asked if she was concerned about the lack of accountability when it comes to the use of rape as a weapon of war. Instead of criticizing generals, she pointed out that insurgent groups also are responsible for sexual violence.
“This has to do with rule of law. And that has to do with politics, and the position of the army as it is in a particular political structure,” she said. “I think you are well aware of the fact that military armed groups which are not official armies also engage in sexual violence in conditions of conflict.”
Suu Kyi wants to run for president in next year’s elections, but the army has the power to block those ambitions, and she’s showing increasing reluctance to criticize.
The U.S. State Department said it was aware of the report, and urged the Myanmar government and military to investigate and prosecute all allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Spokeswoman Marie Harf said Wednesday that despite “tremendous progress” in Myanmar in the past three years, “significant challenges remain, including further improving the country’s overall human rights situation.”
Tin Tin Nyo said the cases her group was able to document are “just the tip of the iceberg.” She said the information gathered for the report comes almost exclusively from victims or witnesses dared to speak out, and that researchers were unable to reach some areas because of security concerns.
The league’s report, compiled by 12 member organizations spread across the country, said in most cases attacks were carried out by soldiers who were carrying weapons and dressed in uniform. They included officers — such as captains, commanders and majors — and at least one major general.
Many of the rapes were carried out in front of the woman’s husband or others, seemingly as a way to make communities too fearful to support ethnic militias.
“These crimes are more than random, isolated acts by rogue soldiers,” the report’s authors wrote. “Their widespread and systematic nature indicates a structural pattern: Rape is still used as an instrument of war and oppression.”
The government sees on-and-off conflicts along northern and eastern borders, where armed ethnic groups have long battled for greater autonomy, as one of the biggest obstacles to a planned nationwide cease-fire agreement. The region is home to several strategic development projects, including a gas pipeline that stretches to China’s Yunnan province.
The report said most cases never make it to court, and those that come before military tribunals usually result in immediate acquittals.
The alleged Nov. 11 attack on the 7-year-old is an exception. The soldier accused of raping her, Maung Win Htwe, was ordered to go to trial in a civilian court.
Lawyer Brang Di said the first witnesses appeared at Lashio District Court last week, including the girl, her parents and neighbors in a tiny Shan village near Thein Ni town.
Brang Di said authorities agreed to try Maung Win Htwe in a civilian court only after a loud public outcry. “We are trying our best to have a fair judgment,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
The Brutal Gang Rape and Murder Of a Young Girl Has Rocked India. Again.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
‘Data brokers’ selling personal info of rape victims to marketers - report
“Data brokers” track, categorize and sell personal health information for marketing use, a new US Senate report reveals. Data groupings include rape victims and HIV-positive individuals, those with depression and dementia, and womens’ gynecologist visits.
Hundreds of so-called “data brokers” in the US maintain databases made up of Americans’ sensitive health details. A report by the Senate Commerce Committee says the companies are legally allowed to withhold from individuals what data is collected, how one is categorized and who buys the information.
The report on the global multi-billion dollar industry was released Wednesday ahead of a committee hearing on such practices. Though the report does not detail wrongdoing, it does point out the reams of consumer data made available to marketers in the digital era. The information is used for targeted advertising across the web.
“Millions of consumers are now using computers, smart phones, and tablets to make purchases, plan trips, and research personal financial and health questions, among other activities,” the Senate report explains. “These digitally recorded decisions provide insights into the consumer’s habits, preferences, and financial and health status.”
During the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, privacy groups warned how far some companies have gone to amass and sell a person’s confidential information.
“There are consumer list brokers that sell lists of individually identifiable consumers grouped by characteristics. To our knowledge, it is not practically possible for an individual to find out if he or she is on these lists,” said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, in her testimony. “If a consumer learns that he or she is on a list, there is usually no way to get off the list.”
Dixon named one broker, MEDbase200, that has auctioned off lists of rape and domestic violence victims.
The committee found another, Epsilon, that offered at least one list of people who allegedly have medical conditions including anxiety, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia, and osteoporosis.
An Epsilon spokesperson Diane Bruno told the Wall Street Journal many consumers report the information themselves on the company’s opinion-research website, and that Epsilon cooperated with the Senate committee. Yet she defended the shielding of lists from individuals.
“We also have to protect our business, and cannot release proprietary competitive information, or information that we’re prohibited from releasing based on contractual agreements with our clients.”
The report showed Equifax, one of the biggest consumer credit reporting agencies in the US, keeps a database that includes women’s visits to gynecologists within the last year.
The largest broker, Acxiom, allows consumers to view and amend the data gathered on them, yet the company does not allow anyone to see how information on them is being used.
The Senate report says the assembled information does not stop with personal health. People’s incomes, home loans and pets, for example, are used to put individuals into groups like “rural and barely making it” and “ethnic city strugglers.”
A great deal of the consumer data collected by the companies is inaccurate, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal.
In some cases, compiled databases reveal contact information that is not allowed to be made public, the report found.
“This is where lawmakers can work to remove unsafe, unfair, and overall just deplorable lists from circulation,” Dixon said during the hearing. “There is no good policy reason why unsafe or unfair lists should exist.”
A recent study by the Government Accountability Office found that federal law does not protect consumers’ right to know what is being collected or how the data is used.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act allows for consumers to correct any credit information an agency may provide to landlords, employers, banks and others. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act bars health providers and insurance companies from offering patient information to outside entities. Yet that federal law does not cover data-mining brokers that sell health profiles. The Federal Trade Commission has called on brokers to be more transparent with the data.
“Current federal law does not fully address the use of new technologies, despite the fact that social media, web tracking, and mobile devices allow for faster, cheaper and more detailed data collection and sharing among resellers and private-sector entities,” the Senate report says, calling for more oversight of the industry.
The hearing’s revelations pertaining to MEDbase200, the company that collected information on victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, led to the company removing those lists from its website. A spokesperson for the company’s parent organization told the Wall Street Journal MEDbase200 did not intend to peddle any list entitled “rape sufferers” – which it was, at a price of $ 79 for 1,000 names – and that it was only a “hypothetical list of health conditions/ailments” created for internal use.
Upon questioning from the Wall Street Journal, MEDbase200 also nixed lists of HIV/AIDS patients and “peer pressure sufferers” that were for sale.
‘Data brokers’ selling personal info of rape victims to marketers - report
‘Data brokers’ selling personal info of rape victims to marketers – report
AFP Photo / Jean-Sebastien Evrard
“Data brokers” track, categorize and sell personal health information for marketing use, a new US Senate report reveals. Data groupings include rape victims and HIV-positive individuals, those with depression and dementia, and womens’ gynecologist visits.
Hundreds of so-called “data brokers” in the US maintain databases made up of Americans’ sensitive health details. A report by the Senate Commerce Committee says the companies are legally allowed to withhold from individuals what data is collected, how one is categorized and who buys the information.
The report on the global multi-billion dollar industry was released Wednesday ahead of a committee hearing on such practices. Though the report does not detail wrongdoing, it does point out the reams of consumer data made available to marketers in the digital era. The information is used for targeted advertising across the web.
“Millions of consumers are now using computers, smart phones, and tablets to make purchases, plan trips, and research personal financial and health questions, among other activities,” the Senate report explains. “These digitally recorded decisions provide insights into the consumer’s habits, preferences, and financial and health status.”
During the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, privacy groups warned how far some companies have gone to amass and sell a person’s confidential information.
“There are consumer list brokers that sell lists of individually identifiable consumers grouped by characteristics. To our knowledge, it is not practically possible for an individual to find out if he or she is on these lists,” said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, in her testimony. “If a consumer learns that he or she is on a list, there is usually no way to get off the list.”
Dixon named one broker, MEDbase200, that has auctioned off lists of rape and domestic violence victims.
The committee found another, Epsilon, that offered at least one list of people who allegedly have medical conditions including anxiety, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia, and osteoporosis.
An Epsilon spokesperson Diane Bruno told the Wall Street Journal many consumers report the information themselves on the company’s opinion-research website, and that Epsilon cooperated with the Senate committee. Yet she defended the shielding of lists from individuals.
“We also have to protect our business, and cannot release proprietary competitive information, or information that we’re prohibited from releasing based on contractual agreements with our clients.”
The report showed Equifax, one of the biggest consumer credit reporting agencies in the US, keeps a database that includes women’s visits to gynecologists within the last year.
The largest broker, Acxiom, allows consumers to view and amend the data gathered on them, yet the company does not allow anyone to see how information on them is being used.
The Senate report says the assembled information does not stop with personal health. People’s incomes, home loans and pets, for example, are used to put individuals into groups like “rural and barely making it” and “ethnic city strugglers.”
A great deal of the consumer data collected by the companies is inaccurate, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal.
In some cases, compiled databases reveal contact information that is not allowed to be made public, the report found.“This is where lawmakers can work to remove unsafe, unfair, and overall just deplorable lists from circulation,” Dixon said during the hearing. “There is no good policy reason why unsafe or unfair lists should exist.”
A recent study by the Government Accountability Office found that federal law does not protect consumers’ right to know what is being collected or how the data is used.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act allows for consumers to correct any credit information an agency may provide to landlords, employers, banks and others. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act bars health providers and insurance companies from offering patient information to outside entities. Yet that federal law does not cover data-mining brokers that sell health profiles. The Federal Trade Commission has called on brokers to be more transparent with the data.
“Current federal law does not fully address the use of new technologies, despite the fact that social media, web tracking, and mobile devices allow for faster, cheaper and more detailed data collection and sharing among resellers and private-sector entities,” the Senate report says, calling for more oversight of the industry.
The hearing’s revelations pertaining to MEDbase200, the company that collected information on victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, led to the company removing those lists from its website. A spokesperson for the company’s parent organization told the Wall Street Journal MEDbase200 did not intend to peddle any list entitled “rape sufferers” – which it was, at a price of $ 79 for 1,000 names – and that it was only a “hypothetical list of health conditions/ailments” created for internal use.
Upon questioning from the Wall Street Journal, MEDbase200 also nixed lists of HIV/AIDS patients and “peer pressure sufferers” that were for sale.
Source: RT
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‘Data brokers’ selling personal info of rape victims to marketers – report
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Montana appeals former teacher’s one-month sentence for rape of teen
Karen Smith
CNN
November 30, 2013
Stacey Dean Rambold pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl and served a month in prison.
Montana is fighting to get a former teacher back behind bars after he served only a month for raping a 14-year-old girl.
Prosecutors filed an appeal Friday questioning the controversial 31-day sentence imposed on Stacey Dean Rambold, whose victim took her own life.
Rambold, a former high school teacher, pleaded guilty to the rape. He was sentenced in August and released from a Montana prison on probation the next month.
This article was posted: Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Tags: domestic news
Montana appeals former teacher’s one-month sentence for rape of teen
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
Utah Woman And Husband Guilty Of Shooting Neighbor Over “Telepathic Rape”
Just an ordinary story of crack cocaine mind control and telepathic sex crimes in a Utah trailer park, via Gawker:
A woman in Utah has pleaded guilty to attempted criminal solicitation and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person after persuading her husband to shoot their neighbor by claiming she was the victim of “telepathic rape.”
Meloney Selleneit was accused of illegally purchasing a gun for Michael Selleneit, a violent felon, and inciting him to shoot Tony Pierce twice in the back while Pierce was working in his yard.
Michael, 53, later told police Pierce, 41, had been telepathically raping his wife for years and was using crack cocaine to control her mind.
A judge found Michael competent to stand trial despite some hesitancy from mental health evaluators. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two one-to-15 years prison terms. Meloney, 55, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to her charges last week.
Utah Woman And Husband Guilty Of Shooting Neighbor Over “Telepathic Rape”
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Gang Rape In Mumbai: Indian Women Need Personal Firearms
What happens in large gun free zones like, say, India? Lots of gang rape, among other things.
According to Wikipedia:
“The Arms Act of 1959 and the Arms Rules 1962 of India prohibits the sale, manufacture, possession, acquisition, import, export and transport of firearms and ammunition unless under a license and is a stringent process. The Arms Act classifies firearms into two categories: Prohibited Bore (PB) and Non-Prohibited Bore (NPB), where semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms fall under the Prohibited Bore category… The criteria which are considered during the issue of NPB firearm permits are whether the person faces threats; PB firearms criteria is more stringent, applicable for a person, especially having a government position who faces immediate danger or threats, family members of such people and a person whose occupation by nature involves open threats and danger.”
I don’t know if you have been ignoring the news from India lately, but I if you have been paying attention than you know that being a human female should count as an occupation that “by nature involves open threats and danger.”
The latest scandal, that was bad enough to stand out from the general culture of rape and make the news, was the gang rape of a 23-year-old journalist:
“As India continues to grapple with the fallout from a string of widely reported sex assaults, including a gang-rape in New Delhi, another horrific attack has occurred, this time in Mumbai. Police say a 23-year-old photojournalist was gang-raped while on the job by five men last night; one arrest has been made. The victim was hospitalized with internal and external injuries and is in stable condition, the BBC reports. A male colleague who was with her reportedly suffered a beating. Some 35 people have been detained in the case, and police have released sketches of the five alleged perpetrators. They say they have a ‘strong lead,’ CNN notes.”
One can pray that the many rape-loving males infesting India are converted by God’s spirit and repent of their wicked ways. The spirit of God has accomplished more difficult things. But humanly speaking the only way to address this issue institutionally is go make sure that most women in India have access to a portable firearm that they can carry on their person at all times.
But what happens if they get her gun?
There is nothing they can do to her with a gun that they couldn’t do without one. Rapists in India have tended to leave their victims alive (unless they die later). They have shown no interest in finishing them off once they were done with them. So that doesn’t matter.
But if women have guns, won’t men have guns too.
Sure, but you can’t expect to be able to rape someone who is shooting at you. You can shoot back, but that makes your rape fantasy much less likely to come true?
What about these five guys? If they had guns they could still hold up the girl and her male protector with their two guns.
Two guns to five guns is less an imbalance than five guys to one man and one rape-able woman. In the no-gun scenario, the not one of the five rapists has any reason to fear the he might get killed. And the girl might decide she would rather take her chances than shoot, even if they do have guns pointed at her. The bottom line is that guns always even out the odds and provide the possibility to the assailant that he might die.
But criminals aren’t rational.
When was the last time you saw someone try to hold up a convenience store with a banana or hold a sponge to a girl’s throat to threaten her? Criminals act to achieve goals just like anyone else. Make those goals riskier and harder to achieve and you will change behavior.
What’s more, women, instead of being helpless victims, will all be seen as potential killers. That will, over time, change how all Indians, male or female, view women.
Gang Rape In Mumbai: Indian Women Need Personal Firearms
Friday, August 23, 2013
Goldman Sachs Banker Arrested For Rape
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By JG Vibes
Intellihub.com
August 23, 2013
A 37-year-old managing director at Goldman Sachs named Jason Lee was arrested for allegedly raping a young woman at an East Hamptons pool party in a vacation house that he rented with his wife. Soon after his arrest he was released on $ 25,000 bail and immediately hired a high profile lawyer.[1]
“He adamantly denies these allegations,” Edward Burke Jr., his attorney, told Justice Cahill. Mr.
Burke did not mention his employers by name, saying only that he worked “at 200 West Street” in Manhattan, which is better known as the Goldman Sachs Tower.[2]
“He is a very talented young man with a very responsible job,” Burke Jr. said, adding that, “He has the support of his family and he looks forward to having his day in court.”
Police were called to a pool party at the house when someone there reported the car stolen, when the police arrived they were approached by the young woman who then reported the sexual assault.
“The matter is still under investigation. It is a fluid situation,” Detective Lt. Chris Anderson said yesterday. However, a police source who asked not to be identified said that the alleged crime happened at a Monday night or early Tuesday pool party, which apparently involved nudity, at the house in East Hampton.[2]
The Wall Street Journal reported that Goldman Sachs has suspended Burke pending the current investigation.[3]
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[1] Goldman Sachs banker arrested in Hamptons on rape charge – CNBC
[2] New York Man Arrested on Rape Charge – East Hampton Star
[3] Goldman Sachs Banker Charged With Rape in Hamptons – The Wall Street Journal
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Gang rape of photo journalist shocks Indian financial city Mumbai
1 of 3. Policemen survey the crime scene where a photo journalist was raped inside an abandoned textile mill in Mumbai August 23, 2013.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – A photo journalist was gang-raped in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said on Friday, evoking comparisons with a similar incident in Delhi in December that led to nationwide protests and a revision of the country’s rape laws.
The attack on Thursday evening triggered protests and an outcry on social media, with many users shocked that it took place in Mumbai, widely considered to be India’s safest city for women.
“An FIR has been registered … nobody has been arrested so far,” a head constable at the police station dealing with the case told Reuters. An FIR is a preliminary police report. Several people were detained for questioning, another policeman said. Some media reports said one man had been arrested.
In rowdy scenes in the upper house of parliament, the opposition accused the government of not doing enough to protect women, despite tougher sex crime laws brought in this year.
The victim, who is in her early twenties, was admitted on Thursday night to a hospital in south Mumbai, where she is in a stable condition, a hospital official told Reuters by e-mail.
The attack took place in an abandoned textile mill in Lower Parel, a gritty former industrial district that is now one of the city’s fastest-growing neighborhoods of luxury apartments, malls and bars, media reports said. The woman was working on an assignment with a male colleague.
“In the evening, the girl and her colleague were clicking pictures. Two men approached her asking her if she had permission to shoot. Another man then joined in and the photographer was gang-raped,” Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh told an Indian television station. Other reports said more men were involved in the attack.
“We’ve brought in 10 people for questioning. A case of gang rape has been filed,” Singh said.
Several dozen mainly male supporters of the right-wing Shiv Sena political party gathered with flags and banners outside the police station where the case was filed. A further protest was called later in the afternoon.
Women’s safety in India has been in the spotlight this year following the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in December, which led thousands of Indians to take to the streets in protest. The woman died of her injuries two weeks later in a Singapore hospital.
The trials of the four men and one juvenile accused of the December attack are expected to conclude within the next three weeks. The verdict on the juvenile suspect is set for Aug 31. Closing arguments in the trial of the four adult suspects started on Thursday.
Following public outcry over the Delhi attack, India introduced tougher rape laws in March, which include the death penalty for repeat offenders and for those whose victims were left in a “vegetative state”.
In contrast to Delhi, Mumbai has long been considered a safer place for women to travel alone, even at night.
“(Mumbai) has this sense of security … but these things make us feel that maybe we are not really that safe,” said A. L. Sharada, director of Population First, an NGO that works on women’s rights issues.
“Women should be able to move freely and take up work. Why should we be worrying about something bad happening to us all the time?” Sharada added.
(Reporting by Mumbai Bureau and Shyamantha Asokan and Aditya Kalra in NEW DELHI; Writing by Shyamantha Asokan; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)
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A Goldman Sachs sign is seen over their kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 26, 2010.
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(Reuters) – A New York-based Goldman Sachs managing director was arrested and charged with raping a 20-year-old woman while on vacation in the up-market Hamptons resort in New York state.
The East Hampton Town Police arrested Jason Lee, 37, after responding to a disturbance at a house, the local police service said in a statement.
Lee was arrested on a charge of first-degree rape and was released on bail on Wednesday, the statement said.
The police did not name his employer, but his role at Goldman Sachs’ New York office was confirmed to the New York Times by his lawyer Edward Burke Jr, who said Lee “adamantly denies the allegations.”
Reuters independently verified that Lee works at Goldman Sachs.
A London-based spokeswoman for the bank declined to comment.
A police dispatcher told Reuters that East Hampton Chief of Police Edward Ecker was due to release a press statement around 9.00 am (1300 GMT)
Burke told the New York Times his client is an “investment bank managing director who has never been in trouble in his life, never accused of any impropriety at all.”
Lee was detained after officers learned that the unnamed woman had been sexually assaulted inside the residence where several people had gathered, the police statement said.
Lee was renting the home in East Hampton with his wife for the month of August but is no longer staying there, the Wall Street Journal said, citing Burke.
Lee was released after posting bail of $ 20,000 and is due back in court on September 19.
(Reporting by Krithika Krishnamurthy in Bangalore, Laura Noonan and Sinead Cruise in London; Editing by Erica Billingham)
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Goldman Sachs banker charged with rape in New York state
Gang Rape of Journalist Shocks Mumbai
NEW DELHI — A young photojournalist was gang raped while her male colleague was tied up and beaten in India’s business hub of Mumbai, police said Friday. The case was reminiscent of the December gang rape and death of a young university student in the Indian capital that shocked the country.
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Police said the woman was on assignment to take pictures of an abandoned textile factory in south Mumbai late Thursday when five men confronted her with an offer to help her get permission to shoot inside the building.
Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh told reporters that the men tied her colleague’s hands with a belt while she was gang raped.
The woman, 22, is in stable condition in hospital.
The assault comes amid heightened concerns about sexual violence in India. The gang rape and death of the student on a bus in New Delhi in December had shaken a country long inured to violence against women and sparked protests demanding better protection for women.
In response, the government passed a new stringent law increasing prison terms for rape and making voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and the trafficking of women punishable under criminal law.
The police have released sketches of the men based on descriptions given by the woman and her colleague, and have formed several teams to track them.
Singh said the area where the attack took place was very isolated and the men may have been local drug dealers.
Gang Rape of Journalist Shocks Mumbai
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Scotland Yard investigates Twitter rape threats against Stella Creasy MP
Police have questioned a 21-year-old man in connection with the torrent of abuse. He has been bailed to a date in mid-September following his arrest in Manchester on suspicion of harassment offences, Scotland Yard said.
On Monday night it emerged that a second MP, Claire Perry, also received death threats relating to her fight against pornography on the internet.
Ms Criado Perez, a freelance journalist, organised a campaign which included a petition signed by more than 35,500 people after the Bank of England decided to replace Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill on new £5 banknotes.
Her campaign led to the announcement that Jane Austen would feature on the new £10 note from 2017, but led to a litany of hostile and menacing tweets against her.
Ms Criado Perez described how the online abuse had left her feeling “under siege” and terrified in her own home.
She told BBC2′s Newsnight: “It has consumed my life both physically and emotionally. I’ve not really had much sleep.
“The threats have been so explicit and so graphic that they’ve sort of stuck with me in my head and have really put me in fear, I realised.”
When Miss Creasy spoke out in support, one Twitter user, @rapey1, threatened: “I will rape you tomorrow at 9pm. Shall we meet near your house?”
Another said: “You better watch your back. I’m gonna rape you at 8pm and put the video all over the internet.”
Miss Creasy then showed her own Twitter followers the messages, saying: “You send me a reape threat you morons I will report you to the police and ensure action taken.”
She said: “It is vile, absolutely vile. It’s not about sexual attraction, it’s about power. It is somebody trying to make you frightened. It is about sex as a weapon.
“It’s not just me. Women who speak out in public life, especially if they champion equality, get serious abuse.”
On Monday Twitter bowed to mounting pressure from victims of online abuse, including Miss Creasy, and announced it would introduce a button for reporting insulting comments.
Miss Creasy had called for Twitter to take faster and stronger action against online thugs in the wake of the abuse, criticising the site’s current security policies.
The MP copied the abusive messages to Waltham Forest Police’s Twitter account and said she was making a formal complaint to her local police station.
She said free speech was “incredibly important” but said it did not include the right to threaten people with rape.
“It is important that we do not think that somehow because this is happening online it is any less violent, any less dangerous than if people were shouting or abusing Caroline in the street in this way,” she told BBC Radio 4′s The World At One.
“Twitter needs to be explicit that sexual violence and sexual aggression will not be tolerated as part of their user terms and conditions.
“We can all challenge these people and indeed when this happens to me in other occasions I tend to retweet it so people can say, ‘This is not acceptable’.”
She also urged internet companies such as Twitter to work with police to establish the identity of the abusers and to find out whether they could be a risk offline as well.
Mrs Perry, the Conservative MP for Devizes in Wiltshire, suffered similar abuse. She said: “I am tempted to shut down my Twitter account given the trolling going on, including to me, but that would be giving in.”
One Twitter user wrote: “Please disappear into obscurity and/or alcoholism. Or die, whatever. The main thing is you should f*** off and never return.”
Miss Criado-Perez’s experience prompted more than 60,000 people to sign an online petition calling on Twitter to introduce a button for reporting abuse within every tweet.
The company agreed, saying: “The ability to report individual tweets for abuse is currently available on Twitter for iPhone, and we plan to bring this functionality to other platforms, including Android and the web.
“We don’t comment on individual accounts. However, we have rules which people agree to abide by when they sign up to Twitter.
“We will suspend accounts that once reported to us, are found to be in breach of our rules. We encourage users to report an account for violation of the Twitter rules by using one of our report forms.”
Senior police officers have privately said they are extremely reluctant to get drawn into the time-consuming and highly sensitive area of trying to police the internet.
Andy Trotter, chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ communications advisory group, suggested today that Twitter was not doing enough to combat internet trolls.
“While we do work with them on some matters I think there is a lot more to be done. They need to take responsibility, as do the other platforms, to deal with this at source and make sure these things do not carry on,” he said.
Scotland Yard investigates Twitter rape threats against Stella Creasy MP
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Alleged rape victim goes free
Karim Sahib / AFP – Getty Images
Marte Dalelv was pardoned by the United Arab Emirates on Monday. The Norwegian claimed she was raped in March by a co-worker, but was charged with having sex outside marriage after going to the police.
By Brian Murphy, Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Norwegian woman at the center of a Dubai rape claim dispute said Sunday that officials have dropped her 16-month sentence for having sex outside marriage and she is free to leave the country.
“I am very, very happy,” Marte Deborah Dalelv told The Associated Press. “I am overjoyed.”
The sentence against the 24-year-old Dalelv last week stirred widespread outrage in the West and highlighted the frequent clash between Dubai’s Western-friendly image and its Islamic-based legal codes.
A 16-month prison sentence handed down in Dubai to a 24-year-old Norwegian woman who says she was raped has been dropped. Marte Deborah Dalelv reported to police that she was raped by a colleague only to be charged with having extramarital sex.
Dalelv claimed she was raped in March by a co-worker, but was charged with having sex outside marriage after going to the police. Her decision to go public about the sentence last week in a series of interviews appeared to put pressure on authorities in Dubai and tarnish the city’s reputation as a cosmopolitan hub, including possible fallout on its high-profile bid for the 2020 World Expo.
“I have my passport back. I am pardoned,” said Dalelv, who worked for an interior design firm in Qatar and was in Dubai for a business meeting when the alleged rape took place.
There was no immediate word from Dubai officials, including whether the pardon was linked to traditions of clemency during the current Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
It also was unclear whether authorities would keep the 13-month sentence against Dalelv’s alleged attacker, identified as a 33-year-old Sudanese man who was charged with consuming alcohol and sex outside marriage. While liquor is widely available in Dubai hotels and restaurants, public intoxication can bring serious charges.
“I have my life back,” said Dalelv. “This is a great day.”
In Norway, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide posted a Twitter message: “Marte is released! Thanks to everyone who signed up to help.”
Barth Eide told the Norwegian news agency NTB that international media attention and Norway’s diplomatic measures helped Dalelv, who was free on appeal with her next court hearing scheduled for early September. Norway also reminded the United Arab Emirates of obligations under U.N. accords to seriously investigate claims of violence against women.
“The United Arab Emirates and Dubai is a rapidly changing society. This decision won’t only affect Marte Dalelv, who can travel home now if she wishes to, but also serve as a wake-up call regarding the legal situation in many other countries,” Barth Eide was quoted as saying.
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter: “Happy that Marte has been pardoned and that she is a free woman again.”
Dalelv said she planned to leave the UAE soon, but “first I have to thank some very special people,” including local groups that supported her. She had been staying at a Norwegian-linked aid center.
The AP does not identify the names of alleged sexual assault victims, but Dalelv went public voluntarily to talk to media.
In an interview with the AP last week, she said she fled to the hotel lobby and asked for the police to be called. The hotel staff asked if she was sure she wanted to involve the police, Dalelv said.
“Of course I want to call the police,” she said. “That is the natural reaction where I am from.”
She said she was held in custody for four days before being able to reach her stepfather in Norway.
Norway’s foreign minister said “very high level” Norwegian officials, including himself, had been in daily contact with counterparts in the United Arab Emirates since the verdict against Dalelv.
“We have made very clear what we think about this verdict and what we think about the fact that one is charged and sentenced when one starts out by reporting alleged abuse,” Barth Eide said.
This story was originally published on Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:00 AM EDT
© 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Alleged rape victim goes free
Alleged rape victim goes free
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Marte Dalelv was pardoned by the United Arab Emirates on Monday. The Norwegian claimed she was raped in March by a co-worker, but was charged with having sex outside marriage after going to the police.
By Brian Murphy, Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Norwegian woman at the center of a Dubai rape claim dispute said Sunday that officials have dropped her 16-month sentence for having sex outside marriage and she is free to leave the country.
“I am very, very happy,” Marte Deborah Dalelv told The Associated Press. “I am overjoyed.”
The sentence against the 24-year-old Dalelv last week stirred widespread outrage in the West and highlighted the frequent clash between Dubai’s Western-friendly image and its Islamic-based legal codes.
A 16-month prison sentence handed down in Dubai to a 24-year-old Norwegian woman who says she was raped has been dropped. Marte Deborah Dalelv reported to police that she was raped by a colleague only to be charged with having extramarital sex.
Dalelv claimed she was raped in March by a co-worker, but was charged with having sex outside marriage after going to the police. Her decision to go public about the sentence last week in a series of interviews appeared to put pressure on authorities in Dubai and tarnish the city’s reputation as a cosmopolitan hub, including possible fallout on its high-profile bid for the 2020 World Expo.
“I have my passport back. I am pardoned,” said Dalelv, who worked for an interior design firm in Qatar and was in Dubai for a business meeting when the alleged rape took place.
There was no immediate word from Dubai officials, including whether the pardon was linked to traditions of clemency during the current Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
It also was unclear whether authorities would keep the 13-month sentence against Dalelv’s alleged attacker, identified as a 33-year-old Sudanese man who was charged with consuming alcohol and sex outside marriage. While liquor is widely available in Dubai hotels and restaurants, public intoxication can bring serious charges.
“I have my life back,” said Dalelv. “This is a great day.”
In Norway, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide posted a Twitter message: “Marte is released! Thanks to everyone who signed up to help.”
Barth Eide told the Norwegian news agency NTB that international media attention and Norway’s diplomatic measures helped Dalelv, who was free on appeal with her next court hearing scheduled for early September. Norway also reminded the United Arab Emirates of obligations under U.N. accords to seriously investigate claims of violence against women.
“The United Arab Emirates and Dubai is a rapidly changing society. This decision won’t only affect Marte Dalelv, who can travel home now if she wishes to, but also serve as a wake-up call regarding the legal situation in many other countries,” Barth Eide was quoted as saying.
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter: “Happy that Marte has been pardoned and that she is a free woman again.”
Dalelv said she planned to leave the UAE soon, but “first I have to thank some very special people,” including local groups that supported her. She had been staying at a Norwegian-linked aid center.
The AP does not identify the names of alleged sexual assault victims, but Dalelv went public voluntarily to talk to media.
In an interview with the AP last week, she said she fled to the hotel lobby and asked for the police to be called. The hotel staff asked if she was sure she wanted to involve the police, Dalelv said.
“Of course I want to call the police,” she said. “That is the natural reaction where I am from.”
She said she was held in custody for four days before being able to reach her stepfather in Norway.
Norway’s foreign minister said “very high level” Norwegian officials, including himself, had been in daily contact with counterparts in the United Arab Emirates since the verdict against Dalelv.
“We have made very clear what we think about this verdict and what we think about the fact that one is charged and sentenced when one starts out by reporting alleged abuse,” Barth Eide said.
This story was originally published on Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:00 AM EDT
© 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Having done it, financially, to so many investors he probably figured he could get away with physical rape.