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Nepal Star, Once Rape Accused, Scripts Historic Feat. Becomes 2nd Cricketer Ever To...
The Nepal star had been facing an eight-year prison sentence before his rape conviction.
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2 Afghans Arrested For Raping Kazakh Woman In South Delhi: Police
Two Afghanistan nationals were arrested after a woman from Kazakhstan accused them of raping her in south Delhi, police said on Wednesday.
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Canadian Says Child Killed, US Wife Raped During Afghanistan Kidnapping
A US-Canadian couple freed in Pakistan this week, nearly five years after being abducted in Afghanistan, returned to Canada on Friday where the husband said one of his children had been murdered and his wife had been raped.
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Afghanistan's Vice President Is Known For Brutality. But This Time He May Have Gone Too Far.
For 30 years, Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum has reigned as northern Afghanistan's untouchable warrior-king: first as a ruthless pro-communist general, later as an armed U.S. ally against the Taliban and finally as a reliable, if unsavory, political boss who could deliver votes from his ethnic Uzbek followers.
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Search For Truth In Rape Case Tests Afghan Justice System
Gul Momina says she was only 15 when a man and his wife lured her from her home here in Afghanistan's capital. They gave her a soda, she recalls. Then she blacked out.
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Taliban Declares Leading Afghan TV Networks 'Military Targets'
The Taliban on Monday declared two of Afghanistan's biggest television networks as legitimate "military targets", accusing them of fabricating claims that militants raped women during their recent three-day occupation of northern Kunduz city.
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Afghan Religious Teacher Jailed for 20 Years for Rape
An Afghan court has sentenced a religious teacher to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl.
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Afghanistan Executes Five Men in Gang Rape Case
Afghan authorities executed five men who were convicted of armed robbery and gang rape, the Kabul police chief said, following a case that galvanized the nation in recent weeks.
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Afghan Rape Gang Sentenced to Death after National Outrage
An Afghan judge on Sunday sentenced seven men to death for the gang-rape of four women in a case that has sparked nationwide outrage, with angry protests outside the court and proceedings broadcast live on television.
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Most women at Kabul prison accused of 'moral' crimes
A 21-year-old said she fled abusive husband only to be raped at gunpoint by a stranger who was supposed to help her.
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Afghan cleric charged with raping 10-year-old schoolgirl
An Afghan cleric has been arrested after allegedly raping a young schoolgirl in the country's north on the second day of the Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam, Afghan security officials said on Monday.
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Afghan women fleeing abuse, rape forced into jail: Report
For Afghan women, the act of fleeing domestic abuse, forced prostitution or even being stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver by an abusive husband, may land them in jail while their abusers walk free, Human Rights Watch said. Running away is considered a "moral crime" for women in Afghanistan while some rape victims are also imprisoned, because se...
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Jailed Afghan woman freed but urged to marry rapist
When the Afghan government announced Thursday that it would pardon a woman who had been imprisoned for adultery after she reported that she had been raped, the decision seemed a clear victory for the many women here whose lives have been ground down by the Afghan justice system.
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Nepal Star, Once Rape Accused, Scripts Historic Feat. Becomes 2nd Cricketer Ever To...
The Nepal star had been facing an eight-year prison sentence before his rape conviction.
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2 Afghans Arrested For Raping Kazakh Woman In South Delhi: Police
Two Afghanistan nationals were arrested after a woman from Kazakhstan accused them of raping her in south Delhi, police said on Wednesday.
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Canadian Says Child Killed, US Wife Raped During Afghanistan Kidnapping
A US-Canadian couple freed in Pakistan this week, nearly five years after being abducted in Afghanistan, returned to Canada on Friday where the husband said one of his children had been murdered and his wife had been raped.
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Afghanistan's Vice President Is Known For Brutality. But This Time He May Have Gone Too Far.
For 30 years, Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum has reigned as northern Afghanistan's untouchable warrior-king: first as a ruthless pro-communist general, later as an armed U.S. ally against the Taliban and finally as a reliable, if unsavory, political boss who could deliver votes from his ethnic Uzbek followers.
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Search For Truth In Rape Case Tests Afghan Justice System
Gul Momina says she was only 15 when a man and his wife lured her from her home here in Afghanistan's capital. They gave her a soda, she recalls. Then she blacked out.
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Taliban Declares Leading Afghan TV Networks 'Military Targets'
The Taliban on Monday declared two of Afghanistan's biggest television networks as legitimate "military targets", accusing them of fabricating claims that militants raped women during their recent three-day occupation of northern Kunduz city.
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Afghan Religious Teacher Jailed for 20 Years for Rape
An Afghan court has sentenced a religious teacher to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl.
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Afghanistan Executes Five Men in Gang Rape Case
Afghan authorities executed five men who were convicted of armed robbery and gang rape, the Kabul police chief said, following a case that galvanized the nation in recent weeks.
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Afghan Rape Gang Sentenced to Death after National Outrage
An Afghan judge on Sunday sentenced seven men to death for the gang-rape of four women in a case that has sparked nationwide outrage, with angry protests outside the court and proceedings broadcast live on television.
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Most women at Kabul prison accused of 'moral' crimes
A 21-year-old said she fled abusive husband only to be raped at gunpoint by a stranger who was supposed to help her.
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Afghan cleric charged with raping 10-year-old schoolgirl
An Afghan cleric has been arrested after allegedly raping a young schoolgirl in the country's north on the second day of the Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam, Afghan security officials said on Monday.
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Afghan women fleeing abuse, rape forced into jail: Report
For Afghan women, the act of fleeing domestic abuse, forced prostitution or even being stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver by an abusive husband, may land them in jail while their abusers walk free, Human Rights Watch said. Running away is considered a "moral crime" for women in Afghanistan while some rape victims are also imprisoned, because se...
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Jailed Afghan woman freed but urged to marry rapist
When the Afghan government announced Thursday that it would pardon a woman who had been imprisoned for adultery after she reported that she had been raped, the decision seemed a clear victory for the many women here whose lives have been ground down by the Afghan justice system.
