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Why has showing mirror become more heinous a crime than the crime itself?

Both attackers are described as Asian and in the early 20s

The girl's parents forced her to marry to cover up the assault but her husband refused to accept the child

The arrests, bringing the total number detained to 18, come hours after SC takes notice of the incident

Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has directed Punjab IGP to submit inquiry report of incident

Police arrest 12 members of Panchayat; Punjab CM orders inquiry

Sex, whether consensual or otherwise, with a person aged below 18 is considered rape in India

Combating sex crimes and a pervasive culture of silence around rape

Such laws are built around patriarchal attitudes linking a family’s honour to chastity of women

Monk made headlines in 2013 when footage emerged of him on a private jet wearing sunglasses and wielding designer bags

India has a gruesome record on rape, nearly 40,000 rape cases are reported every year

Police have booked the boyfriend and are searching for him

16-year-old's body was sustained severe injuries in the assault, including a broken leg

Accused was a widower, who lived in the victim's neighbourhood with his two daughters

High school girl had reportedly been raped multiple times in a forced relationship

Alarming surge in rape and murder cases across Lahore

The woman was asleep when a security guard at the hotel where she was staying entered her room and attacked her

Gayle Newland befriended the victim by posing as man on Facebook

Police sources say suspect admitted to his crime, claiming his daughter ‘provoked’ him

The man cut off the victim's clothes and raped her twice before leaving her alone in the dungeon

The girl had been raped before being brutally murdered in Besham village of Shing on Tuesday

The survivor was left unattended for 14 hours at the Patna Medical College and Hospital

'Thumbprint' first opened in New York in 2014 but Mai had never seen the opera

Her husband is a drug addict who kept trying to force her to participate in the flesh trade, but she refused.

Uber simultaneously released a list of major reforms to be implemented based on a probe led by former US attorney.

The victim was eight years old when her uncle started abusing her

Samantha Geimer pleaded for the case to be resolved on Friday, saying she had forgiven Polanski years ago

However, the suspects have been ordered not to leave the country

9-month-old baby was thrown out of a moving auto rickshaw by men accused of gang-raping her mother

Son says he could not pull the trigger out of parental respect

Sherry Johnson says she was raped four times and became pregnant at the age of 10

Aid agencies have warned thousands of female refugees in camps or on the move live in fear of violence, including rape

One of the victims told India's NDTV network they begged the men to stop and called for help

Prime suspect roams free after securing pre-arrest bail

Police book the alleged rapist, his father and two members of the Panchayat

Accusation against Assange dates from August 2010 when the alleged victim filed a complaint

Girls said they were harassed on their way to school everyday

Notice was taken on reports that 12-year-old deaf girl had been raped, parents demanded justice

The girl was raped by her stepfather and is due to give birth in four months

Sexual violence against women is a highly-charged issue in India

India has a gruesome record on rape, with New Delhi alone registering 2,199 rape cases in 2015

Three women and a man were also arrested on suspicion of covering up the abuse

He had claimed a day earlier that the child had been raped

Police team from Kandhkot to reach Karachi today to arrest rape survivor’s employers

Countless other women, alive and still seeking justice, wait in the wings of a system that is loaded against them

Crime sparked large-scale protests and led thousands of women across India to break their silence over sexual violence

An independent investigation is needed against the use of arbitrary police and legal powers

The girl, a student at a private school in Delhi, was allegedly kidnapped, raped and thrown out of a moving car

Suspects have confessed to gang rape, acid attack, murder of teenage boy

Police claim alleged victim initially said she was only slapped