Tag Archives: sexual assault

Spanish justice ruled this Tuesday, June 25, that a kiss given “without express or tacit consent” constituted sexual assault. “A ‘stolen kiss’, and therefore without express or tacit consent, constitutes sexual assault”, indicates in a press release the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the country, confirming a first …

A 39-year-old woman was arrested overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in Milan, Italy, suspected of having sexually assaulted an octogenarian in order to divert his attention and steal money and objects from his house, local media reported. It was the children of this 84-year-old man who alerted the authorities and …

Australian police on Tuesday announced the indictment of a former childcare worker, for the sexual assault of 91 children, in what authorities have described as one of the “most horrific” child abuse cases in history that the country has known. The assaults took place in ten different child care centers …

A London court on Tuesday sentenced a former police officer, David Carrick, to life imprisonment for dozens of rapes and sexual assaults on twelve women. Considered one of the worst sexual predators in recent UK history, David Carrick, 48, was sentenced to life in prison with a 30-year security period. …

South African police summoned Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Thursday following a sexual assault complaint against him, local media reported. The assault complaint was made by a woman employed at a hotel where the minister stayed with his wife in the eastern Mpumalanga province earlier this month. Police on Thursday …

A Court in Tamale has sentenced a 34-year old mathematics teacher at Sawla Senior High School in the Savannah Region, Ernest Ocloo, to 15 years of imprisonment after finding him guilty of raping one of his students. The sexual assault occurred in 2019, and the case had since been on …

In a statement, the Eritrean foreign ministry said it rejects sanctions of the United States on General Filipos Woldeyohannes. The foreign ministry said the sanctions are “utterly baseless”. The US Treasury has accused forces under the command of General Filipos Woldeyohannes, chief of staff of the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF), …

The US has announced that it has imposed sanctions on a senior Eritrean military leader for engaging in “serious human rights abuse” during the ongoing conflict in Tigray. The US Treasury has accused forces under the command of General Filipos Woldeyohannes, chief of staff of the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF), …

Human rights activists and supporters took part in a sit-in at the Casablanca Appeals Court to rally behind a journalist, who’s being tried over accusation of sexual assault in Morocco. In fact, The trial of editor-in-chief of the Akhbar Al Yaoun newspaper, Soulaimane Raissouni was postponed to March 2 at …