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THE BELOW (updated 12 MAR 2022)
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
Read allso all about the Zan, zendagi, azadi!> (Women,
life, freedom) women revolution in Iran by clicking here
The Guardian | Reuters in Bejing
25 Nov 2022
<<Canadian pop star Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years in jail for rape in
China
A Beijing court has sentenced the Chinese-born Canadian pop star Kris Wu
to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape,
just over a year after his arrest in China, where he was born and built
a lucrative career. The court in Chaoyang district said in-vestigations
showed that from November to December 2020, Wu, also known as Wu Yifan,
raped three women. <Wu Yifan took advantage of three drunken women … at
his home,> the court said on its official WeChat account. A former
member of the K-pop group Exo, the superstar returned to China in 2014
to pursue a solo career.
Wu was detained in Beijing on 31 July 2021 after an 18-year-old Chinese
student publicly accused him of inducing her and other girls, some aged
under 18, to have sex with him. At the time, the student told media Wu
had lured her into having sex when she was 17, after having plied her
with alcohol. The court also found him guilty of the crime of assembling
a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity in July 2018, it said.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/25/canadian-pop-star-kris-wu-sentenced-13-years-jail-rape-china
Opinion by Gino d'Artali: Justice has been served!
France 24
25 Nov 2022
Text by France 24
<<One French woman's fight for her rapist to face justice
In France, only one in every ten women press charges after being raped.
As the world marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence
Against Women on Friday, FRANCE 24 examines the case of a young woman
who did file criminal charges against her rapist. But after six years of
fighting in court, her abuser walked out a free man.
Karine Sanzalone was walking home from work late one night in October
2016 when a taxi driver offered her a ride. She was just 19 and the cab
driver told her it's unsafe for a young woman to be alone on the street
at night. Sanzalone felt vulnerable. The taxi driver seemed nice. She
got into the car and her life changed forever. The taxi driver raped the
teenager. <It was late at night. I shouldn't have gotten in. I was young
and I should have known better. All this time, I've been saying to
myself I should have seen it coming,> she said. <And that's the feeling
that stays the most with me.> Sanzalone was in a state of shock for
three days before she decided to go to the police. The attacker was
known to police. He had alrea-dy been sentenced to a year in prison for
sexual assault. When her rapist attacked another victim ten days later,
the prosecutor finally opened an inquiry. Six years later, he was given
a four-year sus-pended prison sentence and two years of so-called
alternative de-tention, which is an electronic tagging. In other words,
he we was free to walk out of court that day. For Sanzalone's lawyer,
Sonia El Midouli, it was an upset, but not a surprise. <With this
four-year suspended prison sentence and two years of alternative
detention, we felt like the court had purposely decided that this man
would not spend one day in prison - because he's got a job, he's an
entrepre-neur, because placing him in detention would have delayed his
psy-chiatric treatment that he had started years before. And also becau-se
prisons here are full,> she explained. In France, only six out of 1,000
sexual abuses are found guilty in a court of law, according to studies.
Sanzalone is 25 now and continues to fight for justice and is still
hoping for a different outcome from a second trial, which will not take
place before 2024.>>
Watch a video, 2.32 min., here:
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20221125-one-woman-s-fight-to-get-her-rapist-to-face-justice
The Guardian
23 Nov 2022
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By Sarah Johnson
<<Estimated 45,000 women and girls killed by family member in 2021, UN
says
More than five women and girls were killed every hour by a family member
in 2021, according to new UN figures on femicide. A report, published on
Wednesday, showed that 45,000 women and girls - more than half (56%) of
the 81,100 murdered last year worldwide - were killed by their husband,
partner or other relative. UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime
said the figures were <alarmingly high>, but the true number of
femicides - where women are killed because of their gender - is likely
to be much higher. Roughly four in 10 deaths in 2021 were not counted as
femicides because there was insufficient data. Official figures on
femicide have remained largely unchanged over the past decade. Last
year, the highest number of femicides at the hands of relatives were in
Asia, with 17,800 deaths. However, the research showed that women and
girls in Africa were more at risk of being killed by family members. The
rate of gender-related killings in the home was estimated at 2.5 per
100,000 of the female population in Africa, compared with 1.4 in the
Americas, 1.2 in Oceania, 0.8 in Asia and 0.6 in Europe. The onset of
the Covid pandemic in 2020 coincided with a significant increase in
femicides in North America and western and southern Europe, according to
the research. Data from 25 countries in Europe and the Americas
indicates that the increases were largely due to killings carried out by
family members other than husbands and partners. <No woman or girl
should fear for her life because of who she is,> said Ghada Waly,
executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. <To stop all
forms of gender-related killings of women and girls, we need to count
every victim, everywhere, and improve understanding of the risks and
drivers of femicide so we can design better and more effective
prevention and criminal justice responses.> Barbara Jimenez-Santiago, a
human rights lawyer and the Americas regional coordinator for the
international women's rights organisation Equality Now, said
comprehensive data on femicide must be made available, and statistics
should include deaths that result from other forms of violence. For
example, a woman who commits suicide after rape, or a girl who is
pregnant because of rape and dies during childbirth. Many countries
still have laws that discriminate against women and girls, added
Jimenez-Santiago, including those that allow rape within marriage or
permit rapists to avoid punishment by marrying the victims.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/23/un-femicide-report-women-girls-data
France 24
21 Nov 2022
Text by News Wires
<<Local man confesses to schoolgirl murder in southwest France
A 31-year-old man has been charged over the abduction and murder of a
schoolgirl in France, just a month after the killing of a girl in Paris
caused outrage. The latest victim, a 14-year-old named Vanesa in French
media, was snatched on her way home from school in the town of Tonneins
last Friday in the rural Lot-et-Garonne region. A local Frenchman, who
spent the day smoking cannabis in his car, confessed to raping and
strangling her before dumping her body in an abandoned building, local
prosecutors said in a statement on Sunday. While in custody, he said he
had not planned the crime and did not know the victim, adding that <his
acts were sexually moti-vated,> the statement said. <This man is
overwhelmed by the se-riousness of his acts. For the moment, he will
stay in his cell and will meet experts who are the best placed to
explain what appears com-pletely inexplicable,> his lawyer, Alexandre
Martin, told the BFM news channel. The killer, named as Romain Chevrel,
lived with his partner and has a one-month-old daughter. He was
previously con-victed for sexually assaulting children when he was aged
15.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20221121-local-man-confesses-to-schoolgirl-murder-in-south-west-france
The Guardian
17 Nov 2022
Sponsored by the Bill % Melinda Foundation
By Puja Bhattacharjee
<<What drove 200 women to stab a gangster to death? Netflix series
revisits crime that shocked India.
The doors and windows of all the tin shacks in Kasturba Nagar slum in
Nagpur, were tightly shut, the streets eerily empty. An overcast sky
threatened rain. Ashu Saxena, a social activist, was going from house to
house, urging people to come out and talk to her. But the doors remained
closed. Three days before, on 13 August 2004, about 200 women from the
slum had killed a man on the marble floor of a district court room in
the central Indian city. As police and court officials fled, witnesses
say that women across Kasturba Nagar who had marched to the court
carrying stones, kitchen knives and chilli powder, took part in the
killing of Akku Yadav, a 32-year-old gangster. He was stabbed about 70
times and his ears and penis sliced off. For years, Indian police
claimed the killing was the result of a criminal feud but a new
documentary series on the murder has India looking more closely at a
dramatic episode of vigilante justice that few remember, but which
touched on important themes of caste, violence against women and public
corruption. Saxena recalls how difficult it was to get people to talk to
the fact-finding mission set up by civil society organisations in the
days after Yadav’s death, as they knocked on doors and assured people
that no one was in danger of arrest. <I could hear women sobbing
inside,> says Saxena. Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief
who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the
edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his
death. An extortionist, killer and rapist, he dragged women out of their
houses and assaulted or raped them. He barged into homes and gang-raped
women with his associates. He didn't spare children or pregnant women.
Activist Bhaganbai Meshram recalls one brutal attack on a friend's
pregnant daughter. <That night, Akku and his associates gang-raped the
seven-month pregnant woman. She [the woman's mother] came to me carrying
her unconscious daughter and asked for help. I took her daughter to the
hospital and admitted her. Later, I tried to convince the mother to make
a police report. I advised her to act to prevent other women from
suffering the same fate. But she was terrified and refused.> When one
woman did stand up and made a complaint to police, Yadav threatened her
with acid, finally convincing others in the slum that enough was enough.
With an angry mob forming outside his door, police took Yadav into
custody. When people heard he would probably get bail at a hearing in
Nagpur district court, there was an outcry. Women from the slum, and
allegedly some men, stabbed him to death in the courtroom as the
overwhelmed police couldn't save him.
....
<I hope the documentary will start a conversation. I tell people we are
not killers, they have no idea what the women tolerated
Meena Gajbhiye, 53> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/17/what-drove-200-women-to-stab-a-gangster-to-death-netflix-series-revisits-that-shocked-india
and also the embedded link to a related article titled <Student's rape
and murder puts India's sexual violence under spotlight again
Despite new laws to combat the problem, a rape is reported every 15
minutes, leaving victims and families crying out for justice>
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/11/students-and-puts-indias-sexual-violence-under-spotlight-again
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