After the #MeToo campaign, a number of women have come forward, globally, and shared their horrific incidents of sexual harassment. Earlier, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was accused of behaving inappropriately with women. Not only is this limited to Hollywood, but Bollywood has had its fair share of harassment cases as well. Recently, Mithun Chakraborty’s son, Mahaakshay Chakraborty, has […]
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UN chief hears of ‘unimaginable’ atrocities as he visits Rohingya camps
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he heard “unimaginable” accounts of atrocities during a visit Monday to Bangladesh’s refugee camps and called for Myanmar to be held responsible for “crimes” against the Rohingya. Guterres described the situation for the persecuted Muslim minority as “a humanitarian and human rights nightmare” before touring makeshift shelters crammed with people […]
Harvey Weinstein charged with assaulting third woman
Harvey Weinstein was fighting rape and sexual assault charges against a total of three women Monday, as New York prosecutors build a high-stakes legal battle targeting the disgraced Hollywood mogul. The 66-year-old’s career imploded in October in a blaze of accusations of sexual misconduct and abuse from dozens of women that triggered a major reckoning […]
Man arrested for raping 15-year-old boy in Shikarpur
SHIKARPUR: A man was arrested for allegedly raping and dumped a 15-year-old boy besides a hotel at Rustam Chowk in the jurisdiction of New Faujdari Police Station on Wednesday. According to a police station official, a 15-year-old boy was forcibly taken to a house owned by the accused, identified as 30-year-old Arshad Ahmed, alias Arsho […]
Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape, sex assault charges
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in a New York courtroom Tuesday — the next step in a high-stakes legal battle that the #MeToo movement hopes will end with the disgraced Hollywood mogul behind bars. The 66-year-old producer, whose career imploded in a blaze of accusations of sexual misconduct and […]
Local PML-N leader sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for raping minor girl
TAXILA: Session court on Tuesday sentenced a local Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader to 20 years imprisonment along with Rs 100,000 fine for raping a minor girl. Additional and Sessions Judge Ahmed Arshad Mahmood announced the verdict against the accused as well as his aide, a female doctor that had performed abortion on the 13 […]
Weinstein expected to ‘surrender’ to NY authorities Friday
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to New York police on Friday to face sex crime charges, nearly eight months after his career collapsed in a blaze of assault accusations. US media reported that the former movie powerbroker — once the toast of Hollywood, with his films winning scores of […]
Shopkeeper rapes 11-year-old girl in Karachi
KARACHI: An 11-year-old girl was on Tuesday night reportedly raped by a shopkeeper in Malir’s Jinnah Square in Karachi. According to the police, the young girl had gone to a burger shop when the shopkeeper allegedly raped her. The 11 year old girl’s sister said the victim had gone to purchase food, but when […]
Police arrest relatives for raping minor girl in Kasur
KASUR: Security officials on Tuesday night arrested a young girl’s father and two other accused for raping her. The girl’s father along with her paternal uncle and a neighbor were allegedly involved in raping her. The three suspects were arrested after the teen’s maternal grandfather filed a First Investigation Report (FIR) in Kasur’s ‘B’ Division […]
Nobody rapes anyone in Bollywood, it’s all consensual and voluntary, says Rakhi Sawant
MUMBAI: She’s never been one who shies away from calling a spade a spade, and now she has a rather startling opinion on the ongoing debate on casting couch and sexual harassment of strugglers in the film industry. Admitting to being a victim, Rakhi said: “When I was a struggler, yes I did face the […]