In a judgment in a land dispute case in which the four-letter expletive was used, the top court says that to qualify as ‘obscenity’, the terms used must be lascivious, should appeal to prurient interests of people, and provoke a tendency to deprave and corrupt people’s minds
"Anya" gives the BBC a rare account of how sex-criminal financier Epstein lured and abused his “assistants”.
Close on the heels of a minor girl delivering a baby, another case of minor girl getting pregnant because of alleged sexual exploitation has come to light in Dharwad district.
Hong Kong churches have been urged to broaden the implementation of anti-sexual harassment policies to better protect members after a survey found signs of spiritual leaders mishandling complaints, including downplaying incidents. A survey by the Hong Kong Christian Council’s Gender Justice Ministry also identified at least 69 victims who reportedly experienced varying degrees of sexual harassment over the past two decades, including three who were aged 13 to 15 at the time. The findings were...
Disturbing image showing restrained detainee adds to agony of two mothers, each of whom is certain he is their son.
A court order requiring Japan’s government to compensate the family of a Peruvian man who sustained a broken arm at an immigration facility has intensified scrutiny of the country’s detention system, with rights experts saying the case shows reforms are urgently needed. On June 25, the Osaka High Court ordered the government to pay 880,000 yen (US$5,400) in damages to the family of Vladimir Burgos Fujii, a Peruvian man of Japanese descent, who was injured while being restrained at the facility...
For most of his adult life, Siranudh “Psi” Scott kept a dark secret. Allegedly abused by his older brother as a teenager, he buried the trauma, chose to remain silent and – outwardly at least – carried on as a scion of one of Thailand’s most powerful families. Then, last month, he shared a raw, emotionally exposed confession with his hundreds of thousands of social media followers. Psi, 29, publicly accused his brother Sunit of sexual abuse, eliciting a groundswell of public empathy, testimonies...
The incident allegedly occurred on June 16 when the student was beaten for taking too long to copy what had been written on the blackboard; Education dept launches probe