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Tenth-grader raped in Lalmonirhat
A schoolgirl was allegedly raped by a young man of the neighborhood at Chandrapur village in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat on Wednesday.
Much-talked-about changes to rape law passed in parliament
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Report on bill seeking death sentence for rape submitted to Parliament
The report on the 'Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2020', seeking death penalty for rape, was submitted to Parliament on Monday.
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Death penalty fails to deter rapes
The government's recent move to send rapists to the gallows seems to have done little to instil fear in the perpetrators of the horrific crime against women.
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Female hawker ‘raped’ on moving bus in Gazipur, driver held
A female hawker has allegedly been raped by a bus driver and his assistant on a moving bus in Gazipur early Sunday.
Rape victim raped again in Lalmonirhat
A girl was raped in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila on Wednesday evening at her sister’s house, her family said Thursday.
The victim filed a case at Patgram Police station on Thursday evening accusing Robi Mia, 18, son of Abdul Alim Mia of Mominpur village under Jongra union.
According to the case statement, the victim was visiting her sister in Kuchlibari union. On Wednesday evening, their neighbour Robi came to the house and raped her. The girl’s sister and brother-in-law were not at home at the time.
The victim’s sister rescued her but the rapist fled. The girl filed the case after the local arbitration failed to resolve the matter.
Patgram Police Station’s in-charge Sumon Kumar Mohonto said the girl had filed a gang rape case last month against 10 people in Kaliganj.
He said police are trying to arrest Robi.
Bangladesh has seen a spike in rape incidents in recent weeks. Between January and September this year, nearly 1,000 rape incidents were reported, over 200 of them gang rapes, according to rights group Ain o Salish Kendra.
But this is believed to be a fraction of the incidents as many victims do not report assaults fearing stigmatisation.
The government has recently incorporated death penalty as the highest punishment for rape in the law after a series of sexual assaults triggered countrywide protests.
The conviction rate for rape in Bangladesh is below 1 percent, according to Human Rights Watch.
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