Untouched yet ruined: The toll of South Korea's spy-cam epidemic
The wedding hall was booked and home furnishings all bought but the bride — one of thousands of women to fall victim to an epidemic of high-tech voyeurism in South Korea — is not here. Lee Yu-jung took her own life after a colleague secretly ...
Bollywood 'casting couch' culture endures despite global #MeToo movement
It took a minute for Malhaar Rathod, then an aspiring teenage actress, to realize what the 65-year-old Indian film producer was asking her to do — and to make the decision to walk away. "He claimed he had a part for me and then asked ...
Footage from day of apparent Jeffrey Epstein suicide attempt lost, U.S. says
Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on a day he apparently tried to kill himself "no longer exists," federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday. Officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York believed they had preserved footage of guards finding ...
#MeToo conviction of South Korean prosecutor Ahn Tae-geun overturned
A former prosecutor who was tried following groping allegations that fueled South Korea's #MeToo movement walked free on Thursday after his conviction was quashed by the country's top court. Ahn Tae-geun, 53, was jailed for two years for abuse of power in January last year ...
A former television reporter is appealing a civil court ruling that ordered him to pay damages to Japanese #MeToo symbol Shiori Ito in a high-profile rape case. Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former Washington bureau chief for TBS TV and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...
Harvey Weinstein faces justice two years after scandal erupted and launched #Me Too movement
Harvey Weinstein's high-profile sex-crime trial opens on Monday, more than two years after the scandal triggered the #MeToo movement that led to the downfall of dozens of powerful men. The disgraced movie mogul faces life in prison if convicted of predatory sexual assault charges by ...
Cyprus court finds Briton guilty of lying about being gang-raped by Israeli youths
A Cyprus court Monday found a 19 year-old British woman guilty of fabricating claims that she was gang-raped by 12 Israelis in a hotel room at a tourist resort in the east Mediterranean island nation, saying her story lacked credibility. Famagusta District Court Judge Michalis ...
FBI investigates socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and others who 'facilitated' Jeffrey Epstein
The FBI is investigating British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and several other people linked to U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation. They said a principal focus of the ...
South Korea's Constitutional Court declined Friday to rule on the validity of a 2015 diplomatic agreement with Japan that aimed to provide funds to the Korean "comfort women" but was deeply unpopular with the Korean public and may have fallen short of being an ...
The Shiori Ito verdict marked an important milestone for women's rights in Japan, but it also revealed how far behind this country is at protecting sex crime victims.
Pennsylvania dioceses shell out $84 million to 564 clergy sex abuse victims
Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic dioceses have paid nearly $84 million to 564 victims of sexual abuse, a tally that's sure to grow substantially in the new year as compensation fund administrators work through a backlog of claims, according to an Associated Press review. Seven of the ...
