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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot addresses the press as she leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes with dozens of strangers he recruited online, in Avignon on December 19, 2024. Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was earlier found guilty by the court in the southern city of Avignon after an over three-month trial that shocked France and turned his former wife Gisele into a feminist hero. His 50 co-defendants in the case were also convicted by the court, with no acquittals. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot addresses the press as she leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes with dozens of strangers he recruited online, in Avignon on December 19, 2024. Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was earlier found guilty by the court in the southern city of Avignon after an over three-month trial that shocked France and turned his former wife Gisele into a feminist hero. His 50 co-defendants in the case were also convicted by the court, with no acquittals. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Gisele Pelicot's Ex-Husband Dominique Jailed For 20 Years In Mass Rape Trial

Gisele Pelicot addresses the press as she leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail for committing and orchestrating her mass rapes with dozens of strangers he recruited online, in Avignon on December 19, 2024. Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was earlier found guilty by the court in the southern city of Avignon after an over three-month trial that shocked France and turned his former wife Gisele into a feminist hero. His 50 co-defendants in the case were also convicted by the court, with no acquittals. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2 men acquitted in retrial after nearly 30 years in prison

TSUCHIURA, Japan - Takao Sugiyama (L) and Shoji Sakurai, both 64, answer reporters' questions in front of the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture on May 24, 2011. The court later handed down their acquittals in a retrial of a 1967 murder-robbery case. The two men served nearly 30 years in prison over the so-called Fukawa case.

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Upper house approves bill to videotape interrogation of suspects

TOKYO, Japan - The opposition-controlled House of Councillors approves a bill June 4 to require police and prosecutors to record the questioning of criminal suspects, a measure introduced in the wake of a recent spate of court acquittals of suspects who have been wrongly prosecuted.

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Acquittals of ex-JR West heads over 2005 derailment upheld

Photo shows a court room at the Osaka High Court, which upheld a lower court ruling on March 27, 2015, that found three former heads of West Japan Railway Co. not guilty over a train derailment in 2005 that killed 106 passengers and the driver, and injured more than 560 passengers. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Upper house approves bill to videotape interrogation of suspects

TOKYO, Japan - The opposition-controlled House of Councillors approves a bill June 4 to require police and prosecutors to record the questioning of criminal suspects, a measure introduced in the wake of a recent spate of court acquittals of suspects who have been wrongly prosecuted. (Kyodo)

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2 men acquitted in retrial after nearly 30 years in prison

TSUCHIURA, Japan - Takao Sugiyama (L) and Shoji Sakurai, both 64, answer reporters' questions in front of the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture on May 24, 2011. The court later handed down their acquittals in a retrial of a 1967 murder-robbery case. The two men served nearly 30 years in prison over the so-called Fukawa case. (Kyodo)

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Flower Demo movement fighting sexual violence in Japan

Photo taken March 8, 2020, shows a placard held by a protester during a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in the central Japan city of Toyohashi on International Women's Day. The nationwide movement was triggered by outrage over district court acquittals in several sexual assault cases in March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Flower Demo movement fighting sexual violence in Japan

Protesters attend a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in Nagoya on March 8, 2020, International Women's Day. The nationwide movement was triggered by outrage over district court acquittals in several sexual assault cases in March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Flower Demo movement fighting sexual violence in Japan

Protesters attend a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in Nagoya on March 8, 2020, International Women's Day. The nationwide movement was triggered by outrage over district court acquittals in several sexual assault cases in March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Flower Demo movement fighting sexual violence in Japan

Protesters attend a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in Nagoya on March 8, 2020, International Women's Day. The nationwide movement was triggered by outrage over district court acquittals in several sexual assault cases in March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Flower Demo movement fighting sexual violence in Japan

Protesters attend a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in Tokyo on March 8, 2020, International Women's Day. The nationwide movement was triggered by outrage over district court acquittals in several sexual assault cases in March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Flower Demo movement fighting sexual violence in Japan

Protesters attend a gathering of the Flower Demo movement against sexual violence in Tokyo on March 8, 2020, International Women's Day. The nationwide movement was triggered by outrage over district court acquittals in several sexual assault cases in March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest over acquittals of men in sex crimes

Women take to the streets in Tokyo on June 11, 2019, to protest a series of court acquittals of men in sex crime cases. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest over acquittals of men in sex crimes

Women take to the streets in Tokyo on June 11, 2019, to protest a series of court acquittals of men in sex crime cases. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest over acquittals of men in sex crimes

Women take to the streets in Tokyo on June 11, 2019, to protest a series of court acquittals of men in sex crime cases. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest over acquittals of men in sex crimes

Women take to the streets in Tokyo on June 11, 2019, to protest a series of court acquittals of men in sex crime cases, including a man found not guilty over having sex with his underage daughter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo