One-year prison term for MLA for assault on official

One-year prison term for MLA for assault on official

Manjeswaram MLA A.K.M. Ashraf was on Tuesday sentenced to one year in prison and fined ₹10,000 by the Kasaragod Judicial First Class Magistrate Court on the charge of assaulting an official. The incident took place in January 2010. The court also found three others, Bashir Kanila, Abdullah Kaja, and Abdul Khader, all associated with the … Read more

Assault on minor domestic help: Delhi’s dirty linen hung out to dry

Assault on minor domestic help: Delhi’s dirty linen hung out to dry

On the morning of July 19, the same day that a video clip of the sexual assault on women in Manipur went viral and shook the country, social media threw up another series of disturbing images. Except these were from a middle-class neighbourhood in Delhi, and featured a couple, the woman in pilot’s uniform, being … Read more

Manipur police makes sixth arrest in sexual assault case

Manipur police makes sixth arrest in sexual assault case

Women’s wing of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) stage a protest near the ‘Wall of Remembrance’ erected to honor lives lost during the ongoing ethnic violence in the State, in Churachandpur, on July 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Manipur Police has arrested a sixth person in connection with the May 4 parading of … Read more

Manipur sexual assault | DMK’s women wing to hold protest in Chennai on July 23

Manipur sexual assault | DMK’s women wing to hold protest in Chennai on July 23

The DMK’s women wing will stage a protest against the sexual assault on two tribal women in Manipur. The party’s deputy general secretary and Lok Sabha Member, Kanimozhi, will lead the protest near Valluvar Kottam in Chennai on July 23, according to a party statement. On July 24, protests will be held at all district … Read more

CNN investigates female and male protesters’ accounts of sexual assault in Iranian detention centers

CNN investigates female and male protesters’ accounts of sexual assault in Iranian detention centers

They’d choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite … … then the officer would take one of them from the cell to a smaller, private room.” “They would sexually assault them there.” CNN Special Report Covert testimonies reveal sexual assaults on male and female activists as a women-led uprising spreads By Tamara … Read more

Justice for Sexual Assault Survivors: New Law Offers Healing

Justice for Sexual Assault Survivors: New Law Offers Healing

Content Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.   Marissa Hoechstetter knew things weren’t quite right. First, there was the question about orgasms posed by Robert Hadden, the older male doctor who became her OB/GYN. Then, in a follow-up appointment early on in her pregnancy, his “overly-handsy” breast exam. It was Hoechstetter’s first pregnancy. … Read more

Sexual Harassment, Assault Tied to High Blood Pressure in Women

Sexual Harassment, Assault Tied to High Blood Pressure in Women

TUESDAY, Feb. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Sexual assault and workplace sexual harassment may increase women’s long-term risk of high blood pressure and heart disease, a new study suggests. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease, which is the leading killer of U.S. women, accounting for one in three deaths. Sexual … Read more

France Vows to Root Out Islamist Extremism After Beheading of Teacher Samuel Paty

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PARIS—French authorities vowed to crack down on civic groups they said were promoting radical Islam, days after an extremist beheaded a schoolteacher for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Monday said that 51 associations, including religious schools and mosques, would be visited by security services this week, … Read more

Turban row: Manjinder Singh Sirsa files complaint against Kolkata Police over assault on Sikh man

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Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has filed a complaint against Kolkata Police officers over an incident on October 8 when a scuffle between the West Bengal Police and a Sikh bodyguard of a BJP protestor in Kolkata broke out. In a video of the incident, cops can be seen manhandling the Sikh … Read more

Alexei Navalny Accuses Putin of Ordering Novichok Attack

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MOSCOW—Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny blamed President Vladimir Putin for his poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent and promised to return to Moscow to fight for political change in Russia. The opposition politician, who has accumulated an enormous online following with exposes of Kremlin-linked corruption, said he was poisoned with a new type of Novichok and … Read more