A local court in India's eastern state of West Bengal Saturday sentenced three convicts to death and three others to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of a 21-year-old woman, officials said.
China's top legislature has debated repealing the crime of sex with underage prostitutes and reclassifying it as rape, which would face a tougher punishment.
A convicted serial killer on Thursday filed an appeal after a court in north China sentenced him to death for multiple crimes, including the murder and rape of a woman in 1996.
A court in north China has sentenced a man to death for multiple crimes, including the murderer and rape of a woman in 1996.
An average of 92 women were raped every day in India, four of them in the capital last year, said an official report Thursday.
India's Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday described the rape and murder of two minor girls in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Badaun as a "terrible" crime.
All four adult convicts in the gruesome Delhi gang rape last December were sentenced to death for rape, murder and destruction of evidence in a historic judgment by a fast track court here Friday.
The Indian Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Tuesday the plea of one of the six accused in the horrifying gang rape case last month for shifting the trial to a place outside Delhi, because of public anger in the Indian capital, according to official sources.
Fearing that the five accused in the horrifying rape case in the Indian capital last month could be lynched by angry crowds, a local court ordered camera proceeding of the hearings on Monday rather than in person at the demand of police.
A 17-year-old Indian girl studying in class XI of a prominent south Delhi school was allegedly raped by two men at a New Year's party in a middle class residential zone in the Indian capital, local daily Times of India reported on Wednesday.
The Indian capital on Monday is bracing for more protests against the recent gang rape of a 23-year- old medical student who succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Singapore in the wee hours last Saturday.
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