On Monday a fifteen-year-old girl reported being raped by a hospital security guard while she was in the hospital recovering from another rape by another teenager in Jamshedpur, India. The second rape occurred only five days after the first. While the victim’s mother was out, the security guard escorted the victim to the …
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Indian Parliament approved a bill on Tuesday to try 16-18 year olds as adults for the most heinous crimes. This comes amid a storm of protest over the release of one of the six men who raped and murdered a 23-year old student on a moving bus in December 2012. …
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A media ban on using the real name of the 2012 gang rape victim (previously known under the pseudonym “Nirbhaya”) in efforts to protect the murdered victim’s family from shame appears to have done just the opposite. Silencing the victim’s identity also silenced the truth. Akshaya Mishra explains how the state covered …
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December 16, 2012 an Indian woman boarded a bus home from a movie theater in Delhi and was brutally raped by six men. She was left by the roadside near death and died in the hospital 13 days later. Of the six attackers, one died in jail, four received death …
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The five separate incidents include young children, incest and gang rape…
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