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New Delhi on Lockdown in Face of Rape Protests

Police shut roads, public transportation

(Newser) - The situation continues to be a tense one in New Delhi, where police today closed off roads leading to the India Gate and ceased public transportation in an effort to stamp out the protests that have rocked the city following the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman . India's Prime Minister...

India Gang Rape Protesters, Cops Clash

Days of protests after violent assault

(Newser) - Police in India's capital used tear gas and water cannons for a second day today in a high-security zone to break up protests by thousands of people demonstrating against the gang rape and beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus. Police chased angry protesters with batons as they...

More Arrests in Brutal Delhi Gang Rape

Angry protestors march on presidential residence

(Newser) - A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with Sunday's gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi, reports the BBC . Police aren't revealing much information about the suspect as they are still trying to determine whether he is a minor. But the Times of ...

Gang Rapes Trigger Outrage in India

Women say police ignore sexual violence

(Newser) - The hours-long gang rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country today as Indians demanded action from authorities who have long ignored persistent violence and harassment against women. In the streets and in Parliament, calls rose for...

France Drops DSK Gang Rape Case

Woman central to case won't press charges

(Newser) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn is off the hook in a gang rape investigation after a French prosecutor dropped the matter. The investigation was canceled after a Belgian woman withdrew testimony fueling the case. She now tells the prosecutor she was consenting and that she won't press charges, CNN reports. "Given...

Fugitive in Gang Rape Case Caught in Texas

Eric McGowen was one of 20 charged

(Newser) - A fugitive convicted in the gang rape of a sixth-grade girl in Texas has been caught after a little less than two weeks on the lam, reports the Houston Chronicle . It may have been Eric McGowen's last taste of freedom: The 20-year-old skipped out during a break in court...

Gang-Rape Defendant Disappears During Trial

Eric McGowen disappeared during a 10-minute recess

(Newser) - Eric McGowen, one of the men accused of gang-raping an 11-year-old girl, is on the lam, after disappearing during a recess in his trial yesterday. The victim, who is going by the pseudonym "Regina," had just taken the stand, crying as prosecutors showed a graphic cellphone video in...

DSK Now Target of Gang-Rape Investigation

Centers on alleged 2010 incident in Washington, DC

(Newser) - More hot water for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and once again it's US-flavored: A French prosecutor today opened a preliminary investigation into an alleged gang rape in Washington, DC, CNN reports. In the course of France's probe into Strauss-Kahn's alleged participation in a prostitution ring, the gang-rape allegations surfaced;...

New Allegation: DSK Gang-Raped a Prostitute

Investigators looking into it, but woman hasn't lodged formal complaint

(Newser) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have another sexual assault scandal on his hands—or some part of him, anyway. French investigators are looking into allegations that he and three of his friends gang-raped a Belgian prostitute while on a trip to Washington in December 2010, Reuters reports. The allegations spring from a...

Ukrainian Gang Rape Victim Dies

Oksana Makar succumbs to injuries from horrifying crime

(Newser) - Oksana Makar, the 18-year-old Ukrainian woman who was gang raped, nearly strangled, and set on fire, died today in the hospital, the Kyiv Post reports. Makar suffered burns on 55% of her body following the crime three weeks ago, and had had her feet and one of her arm amputated,...

Somalia's Rising Woe: Mass Rape

Aid workers can't remember the last time so many women were being raped

(Newser) - Add another item to Somalia's long list of woes: A country wracked by violence and famine is also seeing a frightening rise in rape, reports the New York Times , which recounts the findings of aid workers and the tales of victims. The sexual abuse is occurring at the hands...

Libyan Rape Accuser Moves to US

Iman al-Obeidi gets asylum; told media Gadhafi forces assaulted her

(Newser) - The woman who burst into a media breakfast to say she’d been gang-raped by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces has arrived in the US, where she’s been granted asylum, CNN reports. Iman al-Obeidi flew into New York following 54 days in a UN refugee camp in Romania ; she then...

UN: Congo Rape Victims Suffer Reprisal Attacks

Sexual assaults continue a year after mass attacks

(Newser) - The United Nations says survivors of a horrific mass rape attack in Congo last year have suffered reprisal attacks. A report issued today says a judicial inquiry into the Walikale rapes was suspended because of concerns about the attacks against victims. At least 387 people were raped in late July...

Libyan Rape Accuser at Romanian Refugee Center

But UN rep won't say where Iman al-Obeidi will eventually end up

(Newser) - Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who made headlines when she claimed Moammar Gadhafi's troops raped her, is at a UN refugee center in Romania. Al-Obeidi had gone from Libya to Tunisia to Qatar, but was expelled from Qatar back to Benghazi on Thursday. A UN spokesperson confirmed that al-Obeidi...

Libya Rape Victim en Route to US

Iman al-Obeidi had been expelled from Qatar, returned to native Benghazi

(Newser) - Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan who broke through Moammar Gadhafi's media control to accuse his troops of gang rape, is headed to the United States. Al-Obeidi had been staying in Qatar until that nation inexplicably expelled her Thursday, and she ended up back in her native Benghazi. Al-Obeidi's sister...

World Court: Gadhafi Forces Using Viagra 'Like a Machete'

Libyan police accused of gang-raping rebel sympathizers

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi's forces have been gang-raping women stopped at checkpoints, using Viagra "like a machete," the chief of the International Criminal Court charges. The court plans to investigate allegations of institutionalized rape of rebel supporters in Libya, Luis Moreno-Ocampo tells CNN . "There are rapes. The issue...

Pakistan Frees Accused Gang Rapists

Mukhtar Mai's alleged assailants go free

(Newser) - Pakistan’s supreme court has freed 13 of the 14 people accused of raping Mukhtar Mai, the activist who earned global acclaim for speaking out about her assault, a rare act in Pakistan’s sexist society. Human rights groups are outraged, and Mai says she’s terrified. “I am...

Iman al-Obeidi Tells Her Story
 Iman al-Obeidi Tells Her Story 
Apr 12, 2011 7:30 AM CDT

Iman al-Obeidi Tells Her Story

Libyan woman recalls capture, brutal rapes, escape

(Newser) - Iman al-Obeidi hasn't left her house in three days. All she wants is to go to her family's home in east Libya, but she says Moammar Gadhafi's family won't let her travel. "I want my freedom," she tells NPR . More than two weeks after al-Obeidi burst into a...

Another 11-Year-Old Gang Raped

Seven teens, one 19-year-old arrested for bathroom assault in California

(Newser) - Police in Moreno Valley, Calif., have arrested seven teens and one 19-year-old for allegedly gang-raping an 11-year-old girl in a park bathroom. The victim says she was about to get on a bus when a 15-year-old girl asked if she wanted to hang out at a nearby shopping center. The...

Libyan Who Charged Rape Vanishes

Authorities claim Iman al-Obeidi was returned to family

(Newser) - A Libyan woman who accused Moammar Gadhafi's vigilantes of raping her has vanished. Libyan authorities beat and hauled Iman al-Obeidi away after she told a gathering of foreign reporters at a Tripoli hotel Saturday about a horrific attack by 15 men. Authorities insist the woman, whom they identified as a...

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