A 25-year-old Stanford employee faces two felony counts of perjury and two misdemeanor counts for intentionally lying about being raped twice on the California university’s campus last year, according to a press release from the local District Attorney’s office. On Aug. 9, 2022, Jennifer Gries, a Neighborhood Housing Service Center Supervisor at Stanford, told county […]
LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that they will not retry Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of one woman, on counts involving two others that left jurors deadlocked. Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson announced the decision to Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench at a hearing in […]
PARIS—A court in Paris convicted Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred of rape and assault charges Friday and sentenced him to six years in prison. The 37-year-old Lamjarred, who is famous on the Arab pop music scene, had been trial on charges of aggravated rape and assault since Monday. A six-member jury and three magistrates spent seven […]
LOS ANGELES—Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced on Thursday to 16 years in prison for the 2013 rape of an actress in Los Angeles. Weinstein was sentenced in a Los Angeles courtroom, where a jury in December found him guilty of rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object. The charges […]
NEW YORK—A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson of raping her sometime in the early 1990s after she met him at a nightclub in Albany, New York. The woman, who is suing for $5 million, said Tyson raped her in a limousine and that she has suffered from “physical, […]
A serving Metropolitan Police officer admits to dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women. The government proposes to give police more clarity on how and when they can act to stop seriously disruptive protests. The UK has become the first NATO country to supply Ukraine with Western-made battle tanks.
BUCHAREST—A Romanian court agreed late on Friday to extend the detention of Andrew Tate by 30 days, after the divisive internet personality was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group. The former professional kickboxer and his brother Tristan were detained on Thursday for an initial 24 hours alongside two […]
This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. An engrossing and incredible true story of social injustice. From rape victim, to rape activist, a low-caste woman in a small village in India speaks out against child marriages and for her own human rights.
NEW YORK—Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered Monday to pay an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total to $10 million for a woman who said he sexually assaulted her nearly a decade ago. While accuser Haleigh Breest’s lawyers called the verdict just, Haggis insisted that he had been falsely […]
A man in Scotland is a rape suspect wanted in the United States, a Scottish court ruled Friday, despite the man’s claims that he is not the person authorities are looking for and that he never visited the US in his life. An Edinburgh Sheriff’s Court judge said that the man claiming to be “Arthur […]
