Harvey Weinstein has had his New York rape and sexual assault convictions overturned.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled that the disgraced movie producer did not receive a fair trial when he was convicted in 2020.
It is unclear if the bombshell ruling will free him from prison, as he still has another conviction in Los Angeles for a separate rape.
Weinstein has been serving 23 years in a New York jail for the two sex attacks against aspiring
The triumphant tweet said it all. ‘I fought the law and I WON!’ announced Ellie Wilson, telling the world of a groundbreaking victory — one that she hopes will change the way rape victims are treated in court.
Ellie, 26, is one extraordinary young woman who has done a lot of healing in the public spotlight. It is four years since she summoned up the courage to tell police that her abusive then-partner had raped her.
The odds were against
On October 7, Hamas terrorists crossed the border into Israel and massacred more than 1,100 Israelis. The depths of Hamas’s sadism are almost too sickening to comprehend. Babies and children butchered. Parents murdered in front of their children. Families bound together and then burned alive. Others were tortured, and their bodies mutilated while both alive and dead.
Even the harshest opponents of Israel’s subsequent military campaign in Gaza acknowledge, albeit often half-heartedly, that Hamas acted with brutality on October 7
There are ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas committed rape, ‘sexualized torture,’ and other cruel and inhumane treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on October 7, a report from the United Nations has concluded.
There are also ‘reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing,’ said Pramila Patten, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, who visited Israel and the West Bank from January 29 to February 14 with a nine-member technical team.
On a grey afternoon in Edinburgh last November, four women took celebratory photographs together at the city’s train station — something that only months earlier no one could ever have imagined.
They were bittersweet souvenirs of a momentous occasion; hours earlier, the women had sat together in court while Aaron Swan, the man who had raped and abused them, was finally convicted of a series of sexual offences.
All four women were his victims, and all had thought they would
The newspaper of record botches an important story about sexual violence on October 7.
Richard Nixon’s anger at The New York Times destroyed his presidency. In June 1971, the newspaper started publishing the Pentagon Papers—a leaked report on the origins of the Vietnam War that documented a pattern of government lying from the earliest days of the conflict.
After six months of waiting, hoping, worrying, the email finally arrived. I took several deep breaths to calm my racing heart before clicking on the attachment. Scanning through the opening paragraphs of HR jargon, I reached a paragraph bluntly entitled: ‘Rape’.
It read: ‘Despite trying, [we were] unable to speak to the alleged perpetrator.’ There were a few further lines noting that my experiences must have been ‘difficult’ and that I was ‘brave’ for taking part in the investigation.
And
Horrified witnesses to Hamas’s October 7 massacre have been left suicidal, with at least one person already taking their own life, it has been reported.
It comes amid the release of testimonies given by those who saw the terror attack first hand – or were among the first at the scene in the days that followed.
Survivors and witnesses to October 7 have said Israeli women were raped – whether they were alive or dead – and tortured in unimaginably
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was defended by his lawyer Benjamin Brafman after settling a federal lawsuit brought by his ex-girlfriend Cassie.
Cassie sued on Thursday, alleging she was trafficked, raped, plied with drugs and viciously beaten by Diddy on many occasions over the course of 10 years.
However by Friday evening, Diddy and Cassie — aka Casandra Ventura — both announced they had reached an agreement. No specific details on the terms of the settlement were revealed.
‘Just so we’re clear,
The door had barely closed when the world-renowned trumpet player who had invited 13-year-old Agnes Green to his room lunged at her, pinning her to the ground, tearing off her jeans and underwear.
In an instant, the man she’d revered, who’d been teaching her the instrument during the week-long programme run by one of Britain’s foremost music schools was gone; in his place, a violent stranger more than twice her age trying to rape her.
‘I was terrified. I didn’t
