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...there were fewer robberies this year, dropping from 162 to 121 incidents. Both forcible rape and criminal homicide statistics remained constant with two crimes reported...
Woman Thou Art Loosed is a misnomer. Titling this film Movie Thou Art Disturbing, Depressing, Not Very Uplifting Nor Powerful At All! would be far more appropriate. The main character, Michelle, played by Kimberly Elise, is raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of twelve, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. To Elise’s credit, she does as much as much as possible with such a weak script. On her time in jail: “I was getting raped in the shower and a woman was pulling...
...Victim Fights Back Your report on "Asia's Heroes" [Oct. 11] included a feature on Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who successfully fought the injustice of local tribal law. After Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a self-appointed village council (to preserve the tribal honor of a local clan), she courageously pursued her case in the courts despite the threat of further violence. Mai won, and six men involved in her rape were punished; two of them were sentenced to death. That is a tremendous example for women across the world who are suffering from similar atrocities...
...Portion of Indian parliamentarians facing criminal charges, including murder, extortion and rape, according to the Bangalore-based watchdog Public Affairs Centre...
...were crushed and suffocated to death in military custody, and that "wrongdoers" would be punished. Several bombs shook Thailand's mainly Muslim south, killing at least two people, following the deaths of the 78, who had been crammed into army trucks after a violent protest by separatists. Rape Sentences PITCAIRN ISLAND Four men on tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and indecent assaults on women and girls over four decades. They included Mayor Steve Christian, who was sentenced to three years for five rapes. All are appealing their...