Tag: Sexual crime
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Police find Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman guilty in madrassa sexual abuse case
According to the case record and police report submitted in court, Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman was found guilty of raping a madrassa student in Lahore, reports Samaa. The suspect’s bail plea at the Cantt Court on Tuesday was heard by Judicial Magistrate Rana Arshad. The investigation officer requested that his bail request should be rejected. Magistrate Arshad…
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‘Men should lower their gaze’: Yashma Gill on rising sexual crimes against women
Actor Yashma Gill has blamed the “400 men” for the mob attack on Ayesha Akram at Minar-e-Pakistan. The Pyar Ke Sadqay actor recently appeared on Gup Shup with FUCHSIA and talked about the increasing crimes against women in Pakistan, particularly Ayesha’s mob attack. “Why are we victim blaming the survivor? Those men had the free…
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Bakhtawar Bhutto demands men be banned from public spaces
Bakhtawar Bhutto took to Twitter to express her outrage, demanding that all men should be banned from public spaces. In a series of tweets, Multimedia Journalist Sabin Agha shared the horrors of her experience of being harassed at Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi on August 14, a few years ago. “Some 100 odd frustrated boys & men…
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Rape apology is not ‘common sense’
A video of a TV talk show host recently went viral in which he was comparing women with ‘toffees. He said that if you left an unwrapped candy on the road for an hour, nobody would eat it because it would have been attacked by viruses, bacteria, germs, flies, mosquitoes, etc. He made this comparison…