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Hollywood star Liam Neeson insisted Tuesday he was "not racist" after confessing that he had once set out to attack random black men after a friend of his told him she had been raped. "I'm not a racist," Neeson said on ABC news, although he ...
Actor Liam Neeson reveals hunting for 'black bastard' to kill after friend was raped
Veteran actor Liam Neeson revealed on Monday that he once walked the streets hunting for a "black bastard" to kill in retaliation for the rape of a friend. The 66-year-old Northern Irish star of "Schindler's List" and "Taken" is promoting his appearance in the Hollywood ...
Former South Korea presidential hopeful jailed in #MeToo case
A former South Korean presidential contender was jailed for three and a half years on Friday in an appeal trial stemming from allegations he raped his female aide — overturning his controversial acquittal by a lower court last year. The case involving Ahn Hee-jung, who ...
Paris police pair convicted of raping Canadian tourist in former HQ
Two French policemen have been convicted of gang rape and sentenced to seven years in prison after a Canadian tourist reported being assaulted at the Paris police headquarters, the city's public prosecutor's office said Thursday. The case centered on an assault at 36 Quai des ...
Zimbabwean women live in fear after being raped allegedly by soldiers and police
A 33-year-old Zimbabwean unemployed mother of two tearfully narrates how four men in military uniform ordered her to open her door at midnight before two of them raped her. On Jan. 17, the men forced their way into her house in a poor township on ...
Denied asylum, Iraqi charged with rape and murder in Germany's 'Susanna case'
German prosecutors Wednesday announced child rape and murder charges against a rejected Iraqi asylum-seeker in a case that fueled a heated debate about immigrant crime. The accused in the "Susanna case," 21-year-old Ali Bashar, had fled Germany after the crime for northern Iraq but was ...
Tokyo High Court upholds life term for Filipino man over gang rape and murder of student in 2004
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a Filipino man to life imprisonment for the 2004 gang rape and murder of a university student in Ibaraki Prefecture. According to the rulings, Jerico Mori Lampano, 37, conspired with two other ...
Wrapping an arm around her stomach, the young woman hung her head and recounted the day in early November when she and a friend were bound, dragged into the bush and raped by four men with guns. "My body hasn't been the same since," the ...
Tribunal for crimes committed in Myanmar against Rohingya urgently needed, rights law group says
A human rights law group contracted by the U.S. State Department to investigate atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar said on Monday there was an urgent need to establish a criminal tribunal to bring those responsible to justice. A report released on Monday by the ...
U.N. condemns 'brutal' sexual attacks on 125 women and girls in state-controlled area of South Sudan
The United Nations condemned on Sunday a wave of "brutal" sexual attacks on women and girls in the northern town of Bentiu in South Sudan that took place in what it described as a government controlled area of the region. On Friday, the aid agency ...
Rights groups urge European countries to scrap 'outdated, harmful' rape laws
European countries must overhaul "outdated" laws that let rapists off the hook and perpetuate a culture of victim-blaming, rights groups said Saturday. Only eight out of 31 countries surveyed by Amnesty International define rape as sex without consent, according to research published on the eve ...
A South Korean cult leader was convicted Thursday of the multiple rape of eight female followers — some of whom believed he was God — and jailed for 15 years. Pastor Lee Jae-rock's victims were "unable to resist as they were subject to the accused's ...
