Word: rapists
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Davis, 37, has built a thriving business out of adapting to Germany the sort of fare familiar to viewers of Lifetime and other women's cable channels in the U.S. Consider The Woman, Her Friend and the Rapist, a 90-minute movie that recently appeared on RTL, a German commercial network. It's about a newlywed whose husband is accused of raping her best friend. The show was watched by 2.4 million people, garnering an enviable 19% share...
...punished. But a judge in the ultraconservative Northwest Frontier province exonerated the man and last month convicted Zafran Bibi of adultery. Her sentence: death by public stoning. In Pakistan, victims of sex crimes are subject to harsh Islamic laws known as the Hudood ordinances. For a rapist to be found guilty, four adult male Muslims have to witness the crime, or the rapist must confess. If the court rules there was consent, the woman can be convicted of adultery, as Zafran Bibi was. Although no stoning sentence has ever been carried out, human-rights activists say that women's lives...
...country's legal system treats women who accuse men of rape. The problem lies in the so-called Hudood ordinances, a series of Islamic decrees that are enforced in tandem with the country's secular legal system. Human rights activists say these laws blatantly discriminate against women. For a rapist to be convicted, for example, his crime has to be confirmed by four adult male Muslim eyewitnesses, or the rapist must confess. If the court rules that there was consent, the woman can be convicted of adultery. Sentences under the Hudood ordinances include amputation for theft, flogging for drinking alcohol...
...would be ludicrous for the Ad Board to try a suspected murderer, and we applaud the administration for realizing that it is also ridiculous for a Harvard board to try a suspected rapist...
...date rape" drug] and suggested I might be able to come up with some here. I told him that I had looked for some but without success." Hoschouer says he put Hanssen off until he gave up on the idea. "I have my faults, but I'm not a rapist," he says...