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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused in gang-rape of teenager in New York

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused in gang-rape of teenager in New York

HIP-HOP star Sean "Diddy" Combs was accused in federal court of taking part in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in his Manhattan recording studio in 2003, marking the fourth lawsuit leveling sexual assault allegations against him in recent weeks. Combs, 54, founder of the landmark label Bad Boy Records and a hugely successful rap performer, issued a statement on Wednesday categorically professing his innocence and declaring his accusers were "looking for a quick payday." The plaintiff in the latest lawsuit was identified as Jane Doe, described as a high school student at the time she met associates of…
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Frustration in Egypt as Cairo hotel gang rape case is shelved

Frustration in Egypt as Cairo hotel gang rape case is shelved

MENNA A. FAROUK EGYPTIANS said yesterday that attitudes towards women need to change to end sexual violence in the north African country, after a high-profile gang rape case was shelved. Public prosecutors on Tuesday freed four suspects in a case involving a woman who said she was drugged and raped in 2014 at the Fairmont Hotel in the capital, Cairo, as evidence amassed during nearly nine months of investigation was insufficient. "The problem is not only with the law, but it is mainly with social attitudes towards women," said Entessar El-Saeed, director of the Cairo Foundation for Development and Law,…
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Rapes show double struggle of low-caste women in India

Rapes show double struggle of low-caste women in India

ANNIE BANERJI and SAURABH SHARMA THE victim of India's latest alleged gang rape faced the double discrimination of being born female and low caste, says her family, fearing she will get no justice in death either. They say it would all have been different if the 19-year-old victim of a brutal attack came from an upper-caste family or if the suspects were all lower-caste Indians, known as Dalit. "The police are twisting facts," her brother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Things could have been different had we belonged to an upper caste." His…
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Egypt detains second suspect in alleged rape case, three more held in Lebanon

Egypt detains second suspect in alleged rape case, three more held in Lebanon

EGYPTIAN public prosecutors have ordered the detention of a second man suspected of being involved in an alleged gang rape at a luxury hotel in Cairo in 2014 pending investigations, they said in a statement on Sunday. Police arrested the man on August 28, days after a first suspect was arrested in Cairo. Seven other suspects fled the country between July 27 and July 29 after claims against them began circulating on the internet, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. Five of the seven suspects escaped to Lebanon, where security forces August 28 arrested three of them after receiving…
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Egypt detains suspect in high-profile rape case

Egypt detains suspect in high-profile rape case

EGYPTIAN public prosecutors ordered the detention of a man suspected of being involved in an alleged gang rape at a luxury Cairo hotel in 2014 for four days pending investigation, they have announced in a statement. The man, who is also a suspect in other similar cases, was arrested by police on Wednesday as he tried to flee abroad like seven other suspects in the case, which has been the focus of an online campaign against sexual assault in Egypt, they said. The seven suspects fled the country between July 27 and July 29 after claims against them started to…
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Egypt orders arrests after Instagram account exposes gang rape

Egypt orders arrests after Instagram account exposes gang rape

MENNA A FAROUK EGYPTIAN authorities have ordered the arrests of a group of men accused of being involved in a gang rape at a Cairo hotel amid a rare debate about sex crimes that started on social media and has fuelled a growing #MeToo movement. Lack of action over the 2014 incident, that was reported to have involved six men from powerful families, caused an uproar after being disclosed in July by an Instagram account with more than 180,000 followers that aims to expose sex attackers. The case came after the same Instagram account, Assault Police, named a university student…
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