Category Archive for : ‘INTERNATIONAL’

March 5, 2021
Lydia Lam, Jalelah Abu Baker
Channel News Asia

SINGAPORE: The maximum penalties for three types of sexual offences will each be increased by a year, after a review of how some sexual and violence-related crimes are sentenced by Singapore courts, Minister of Law K Shanmugam said on Friday (Mar 5).

On top of this, mitigation pleas in certain types of offences based on the offender’s educational qualifications or academic potential “should not carry much weight”, he said in a ministerial statement in Parliament.

“You shouldn’t be able to come to

February 25, 2021
Karolina Tagaris, Angeliki Koutantou
US News

ATHENS (REUTERS) – Greece will toughen laws to combat sexual abuse and protect minors, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday following a cascade of recent scandals in culture and sport.

“Greek society underwent a shock when it began to learn about its hidden facades,” Mitsotakis told parliament.

The measures he outlined include stricter penalties for crimes against sexual freedom, changing the statute of limitations for cases of child abuse, creating a registry for professionals who work with children and a website where victims can submit

December 15, 2020
Wagar Mustafa
News Trust

LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pakistan introduced a rape law on Tuesday that will create special courts to try cases within four months, after protests over the gang rape of a woman whose car ran out of fuel.
The presidential decree also provides for anti-rape cells to provide medical examinations within six hours of a complaint being made and creates a national sex offender registry.
“The ordinance will help expedite cases of sexual abuse against women and children. Special courts will be set up across

August 3, 2020
Hamdah Salhut, Trey Yingst
Fox News

Farah Radwan, a 27-year-old small business owner, was walking down the street in Cairo when she said a man stepped in front of her.

“You get people who are aggressive and that’s when it gets dangerous… Today I’m embarrassed to be Egyptian,” Radwan told Fox News.

Before long, more than a dozen people came out from shops laughing as the man allegedly harassed Radwan, making sexually suggestive remarks
Her experience, which took place in 2018, is not unique. Around 99 percent of Egyptian women have experienced sexual

March 3, 2020
Aljazeera

The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world’s second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu teamed up in 2018 to investigate the Chilean church and its wretched record of protecting paedophile priests – a bombshell expose that resulted in every active Chilean bishop offering to resign.
Their new mission to Mexico, due to take place from March 20-27, is

December 11, 2019
Matthew Mohan-Hickson
Portsmouth

Richard Townsend, 57, was given a two-year jail sentence suspended for two years after admitting encouraging the distribution of indecent images and making indecent images of children in March 2018.
A National Crime Agency investigation proved Townsend used a child sex offenders’ online conferencing room and had 158 indecent images of children (IIOC), 38 at the worst category, on his electronic devices.
NCA officers launched a parallel investigation after uncovering a home-made video believed to be shot by Townsend, an accountant, of his partner Mark Metcalfe, 56, sexually abusing