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By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — The pregnant woman who accused four Bulacan policemen of raping her during an anti-drug operation in Meycauayan has backed out of filing charges against them. “Ayoko na pong lumaban..Anoman ang mangyari sa amin, Ma’am, Sir, ipagpapasadiyos ko nalang,” she said in a text message to the police. The police read out the message in a press conference on Friday. According to Philippine National Police Chief […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday said Japan cannot declare the issue of its former wartime sex slaves “over”, repeating calls for Tokyo to apologize over the issue and confront wrongdoings. The controversy of the so-called comfort women — those forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II — has marred relations between the neighbors for decades. Park Geun-Hye, Moon’s ousted predecessor, struck a deal […]
(Eagle News) — Two men who were convicted of rape by a Davao court in 2012 have been acquitted by the Supreme Court. In acquitting Juvy Amarela and Junard Racho, the High Court did not apply what is supposedly the decades-old women’s honor doctrine, under which women are believed not to lie about being raped because “women, especially Filipinos, would not admit that they have been abused unless that abuse had actually happened.” In a decision […]
by Benjamin LEGENDRE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been charged with rape, a judicial source said, following claims by two women that he assaulted them in French hotel rooms in 2009 and 2012. Ramadan, who was arrested by French police on Wednesday, was charged on Friday with connected charges of rape and rape of a vulnerable person, the source said. The accused is a Swiss citizen whose grandfather founded […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Marchesa, the fashion label co-owned by Harvey Weinstein’s estranged wife Georgina Chapman and famous for clothing Hollywood starlets, has canceled its runway show at New York Fashion Week, just months after his downfall for alleged rape and sexual assault. Marchesa has been a fixture of New York’s biannual fashion week since September 2006 and had been scheduled to show on February 14 — Valentine’s Day, rather awkwardly. It was […]
ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal, Africa (AFP) — A group of Spanish tourists were robbed and raped in Senegal’s restive Casamance region by armed men, a security source and state media said on Friday. The tourists’ vehicle was stopped near the village of Karonge, around 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the regional capital Ziguinchor, a security source told AFP. “There were four Spanish tourists. A man and three women were being driven by a Senegalese driver. They were […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Tuesday arrested the son of a former volleyball coach after he prevented law enforcers from apprehending his father, who has warrants for his arrest for rape of a minor, among others. John Erick Laping was arrested in Quezon City for what authorities said was obstruction of justice. This was after Laping prevented policemen from implementing the warrants against Dennis Laping,44, who was seen entering their house in Barangay Old Balara […]
by Frankie TAGGART Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A former actress accused Harvey Weinstein Friday of unzipping his pants and forcing himself on her, as a separate alleged victim publicly repeated rape allegations she had made in a newspaper interview. Heather Kerr, who appeared on 1980s US sitcom “The Facts of Life,” claims Weinstein attacked her during a private meeting when she was an aspiring actress in her 20s. “He asked me […]
by Veronique Dupont with Jennie Matthew in New York Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul accused of decades of sexual abuse and harassment, resigned from the board of his production company on Tuesday, as Reese Witherspoon became the latest star to open up about her own experience of sexual asault. Weinstein was sacked as co-chairman of The Weinstein Company on October 8, but had continued to hold […]
by Cyril Julien Agence France Presse The sexual abuse accusations now deluging Harvey Weinstein have bubbled up before as inside jokes and sly asides, tributes to the movie producer’s capacity to inspire both fear and loathing in Hollywood. US media have resurrected scenes from films and TV series, or interviews in which Weinstein’s name and unsavory reputation are on clear display. Through his representatives, Weinstein has asserted that all the sexual encounters revealed over the […]
by Thomas Urbain / Sébastien Blanc Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The case against disgraced Harvey Weinstein took on an international dimension Thursday, with police in New York and Britain launching investigations — while the movie mogul was accused of rape by a fourth person. An avalanche of claims of sexual harassment, assault and rape by the hugely influential Hollywood producer have surfaced since the publication last week of an […]
by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Italian film star Asia Argento and two other women claim that disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein raped them, in a bombshell New Yorker expose published on Tuesday. The women’s allegations against the 65-year-old movie mogul, according to the magazine, include unwanted oral sex and forced oral and full sex. Weinstein denies all charges, according to a statement from his spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister, circulated among […]
