Police: Swiss Tourist Gang-Raped in India
A Swiss woman who was touring by bicycle with her husband through the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was gang-raped by a group of men, police said today. Thirteen men were detained and...
View Article6 Men Arrested in India Gang Rape of Swiss Tourist
Six men have been arrested in the gang rape of a Swiss tourist in India, CNN reports; five "have confessed to gang-raping the woman and attacking her husband," says a police spokesman, per Sky News ....
View ArticleBrit Fears Sex Assault, Jumps Out Window in India
Fearing a sexual assault in India, a British tourist jumped out of her hotel window, tearing a ligament in her leg, the Telegraph reports. She was staying in a budget hotel when its manager and a...
View ArticleBrutal Rape of Girl, 5, Sets Off Protests in India
A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition today after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days, officials said. The incident—which came four...
View ArticleTo Curb Rape, India Looks at Banning Porn
In the wake of brutal gang rapes , the rape of a 5-year-old girl , and surging sex crimes, India is looking at banning pornography completely. The country's Supreme Court took up the controversial...
View ArticleIndia Gang-Rape Suspect's Food Poisoned: Lawyer
One of the suspected attackers in the December gang-rape that rocked India has been poisoned and then assaulted in jail, his lawyer says. Vinay Sharma was taken to a New Delhi hospital yesterday with...
View ArticleAmerican Gang-Raped in India
Yet another gang-rape in India is making headlines, and this one hits closer to home: Police say an American woman was the victim. The 30-year-old tourist was reportedly looking for an auto-rickshaw to...
View ArticleAmerican Raped in India Describes Attackers
No arrests have been made in the gang-rape of an American tourist , but the 30-year-old victim was able to give police descriptions of her three attackers, reports AFP . The assailants picked her up in...
View ArticleIndia Arrests 3 in US Woman's Rape
Police have arrested three young Nepalese men in the gang-rape of an American woman in Manali, India, officials say. Two of the men, known only as Arjun and Lakki, were arrested in the tourist town,...
View ArticleIndia Gang-Rape Trial Takes Surprise Turn
With a verdict in the Delhi gang rape case that outraged India just weeks away, one defendant has broken ranks to admit that he was on the bus where a young woman was raped and thrown from the vehicle...
View ArticleJournalist, 23, Gang-Raped During Mumbai Photo Shoot
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...
View ArticleCops Bust 5 in Gang Rape of Photojournalist
Police today arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, and said charges would be filed soon in a case that has incensed the public and fueled debate over...
View ArticleIndia Convicts 4 in Bus Rape
An Indian court has convicted four men in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a case that set off waves of protests and gave voice to years of anger over the treatment of...
View ArticleIndia Teen Dies After Being Gang-Raped, Set Afire: Dad
A 14-year-old girl in Orai, northern India, was gang-raped, then set on fire when she warned the perpetrators she'd report the incident, her father says. The girl died in a hospital with burns over 80%...
View ArticleFor Mumbai Gang Rapists, Act Had Grown 'Routine'
The New York Times delves inside the gang rape of a a 23-year-old photojournalist earlier this year, finding the act had simply grown normal for the five men accused. Police say they had committed at...
View ArticleIndia Convicts 3 in Gang Rape of American
India today convicted three Nepalese men in the gang rape of an American tourist in a small Himalayan town, reports the Wall Street Journal , with each of the men drawing a 20-year prison term. The...
View ArticleIndian Girl, Gang-Raped Twice, Set Afire, Dies
A 16-year-old Indian girl who was allegedly gang-raped on two consecutive nights in October died Tuesday after suffering burns on more than 65% of her body—and after telling police that her alleged...
View ArticleTourist, 51, Says She Was Gang-Raped in Delhi
The words "gang-rape" and "India" are once again making headlines, this time in connection with a 51-year-old Danish tourist in New Delhi. The woman says she was robbed and raped at knife-point between...
View Article4 Convicted in Gang-Rape That Shook Mumbai
Two months after the August gang-rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, the New York Times delved into the case, finding that the act had simply grown normal for the five men accused . Something else...
View ArticleTeen Sisters Gang-Raped, Hanged in India
Three men, including two police officers, have been arrested in northern India in connection with a horrific new instance of sexual violence: They're suspected of gang-raping and killing two teenage...
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