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A Spanish court ruled that former Brazilian footballer Dani Alves could be released from prison on a €1 million bail and must surrender his passports while awaiting the appeal of his rape conviction in Barcelona. Alves was convicted of raping a woman in a nightclub in 2022 and received a prison sentence of four years and six months. He maintained his innocence throughout the three-day trial. He has been behind bars since being arrested in January 2023. Previous appeals for bail release were rejected as the court considered him a flight risk, noting that Brazil does not extradite its nationals ...
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A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, who has represented the victims of Jeffery Epstein and Bill Cosby, on Tuesday (12 March). The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The unnamed plaintiff who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner with Polanski, who knew she was ...
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A tourist who was travelling on a bicycle with her husband was allegedly gang-raped overnight from 1 to 2 March in the Dumka district of India's Jharkhand state - a well-known tourist destination with a rich culture. The victim was on a cycling trip with her husband to Nepal via Bhagalpur, they had stopped at Dumka when the assault took place. According to her statement, the couple had pitched their tent in a secluded spot near Hansdiha market. While she was asleep, several youths from the area broke into the tent and took turns to rape her. They also used physical violence, according to her c...
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French actor Gérard Depardieu is facing a new complaint of sexual assault, this time from a set decorator who alleges he groped her during filming in 2021. In a complaint to the Paris prosecutor’s office, she accuses him of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and sexist insults, her lawyer said on Monday. The 53-year-old woman alleges he grabbed her and “kneaded her waist and stomach up to her breasts” during the filming of “Les Volets Verts” (The Green Shutters). Her lawyer said other people intervened to stop the alleged incident. It is the second allegation of sexual misconduct by the 75-yea...
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At least 71 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza have been killed by Israeli airstrikes within just 24 hours, according to health officials in the territory on Thursday. The news comes as diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continue. A member of Israel’s War Cabinet revealed late Wednesday that new attempts are being made to negotiate a truce that could temporarily halt the conflict in Gaza. However, tensions continue to escalate, including in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Early on Thursday, three gunmen killed one Israeli and injured at least five others n...
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The lack of a standard definition of rape in Europe's first-ever law on violence against women has taken centre stage in talks ahead of the Women 20 delegation traveling to the Group of 20 summit in Brazil later this year. “The W20 is launching an appeal to reject the EU directive that will be put to a vote in parliament in April," said Linda Laura Sabbadini, who served as the Chair of W20 in 2021. "We want it to be rejected as it doesn’t include rape and sexual harassment in the workplace, so it does not meet the requirements of the Istanbul Convention.” In Italy, at least 31.5 per cent of wo...
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