Four Men Found Guilty of Last Year's Brutal Gang Rape in India

An Indian court found four men guilty today of the infamous New Delhi bus gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman last December.

An Indian court found four men guilty today of the infamous New Delhi bus gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman last December.

An Indian court has sentenced the 18-year-old youth who was being tried for his role in the gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus last year to three years in prison, sparking outrage from the victim’s family, who argued that the young man should have been tried as an adult despite the fact that he was 17 when…
Two more men have been arrested in the gang rape of a photojournalist in India. Police in Mumbai announced that they arrested a fourth suspect on Saturday and a fifth suspect on Sunday after 19-year-old Chand Babu Sattar Shaikh reportedly confessed to the crime and named the other men involved while in police custody…
A photojournalist in her early 20s was gang raped by five men in Mumbai on Thursday evening, according to police. The horrific attack is being compared to the December gang rape of a university student in New Delhi that caused international outrage and led to a revision of the nation's rape laws.
The attack took…
Sunny Hundal, the author of e-book India Dishonored: Behind a Nation's War On Women, has written a fascinating piece for Al Jazeera that some readers might consider an exposé on India's shocking amount of missing women — but in actuality, it's just an amassing of public census data and facts that have been reported…
The six Indian men charged back in March with the horrific gang-rape of a Swiss tourist have been convicted in the province of Datia and sentenced to life in prison, thanks in part to the recent pressure on Indian officials to do a better job protecting women from sexual violence. According to CNN, the men have …
Last Saturday, an American woman and her French male companion were trapped on a public van in Rio de Janiero by three men. For six hours, they beat both and raped the woman as the suspects took turns driving the van. Finally, the couple was taken to an ATM at the outskirts of town to withdraw money before being…
Amid a flurry of human rights criticism about India's highly publicized rape problem, India's media outlets are reporting that 13 men are being held and questioned about the gang-rape Friday of a Swiss tourist camping in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
The Indian government needed an answer for the country's sexual assault problem, so it turned to the miracle of modern global positioning technology with the development of a wrist watch equipped with GPS and a distress button. When activated, the watch would send texts to the wearer's family and friend, and also…
The five men charged last month with the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old female student on a bus in New Delhi have all pleaded "not guilty," the BBC reports, despite what prosecutors have described as a prodigious pile of evidence.
After receiving more than 80,000 suggestions after last month's fatal gang rape, an Indian government panel recommended today that the country update and more strictly enforce its sexual assault laws as well as resolve to fast track rape trials. It's a very necessary start, but still just the beginning.
No, you have not been sucked into a horrible Groundhog Day bog of news quicksand — police on Sunday said that they arrested six men suspected of raping yet another female bus passenger in India. The distressing report comes a mere four weeks after the deadly gang rape of a student on a bus in the country's capital…
Three of the six men accused of raping and murdering 23-year-old Indian physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh Pandey will plead not guilty due to "lapses in the police investigation," Reuters reports. Ugh.
What we write and say when we identify the 23-year-old medical school graduate who died two weeks after being viciously gang raped and beaten by six men on a moving bus in New Delhi, India: victim, catalyst for change, "India's Daughter."
The male friend (the AFP calls him her boyfriend) of the 23-year-old student who was raped and beaten by six men on a New Delhi bus — and died two weeks later of brain damage — spoke publicly for the first time to Zee News today.
Rape, murder, and other charges including attempted murder and destruction of evidence were filed today against five men who officials think violently raped and beat a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a bus in New Delhi, India. She fought for her life for two weeks but eventually died in a hospital in Singapore.…