Al-Monitor | Leila Alikarami: Just a few years after the West was consumed with the #MeToo movement, a similar movement has finally emerged among Iranians, sending shockwaves across Persian language social media. Over the past week, many women and men have come forward to talk about their experiences of rape and sexual assault by dozens of high-profile ...

Press TV - Two Israeli soldiers are accused of sexually harassingPalestinianwomen, and stealing money and personal belongings from Palestinianspassing through a checkpoint in the central part of the occupied West Bank. Israels English-languageHaaretzdaily newspaper reported that the suspects, who are serving in the Military Police Corps, had conducted ...

Press TV - A US grand jury report has accused more than 300 predator priests of sexually abusing over 1,000 child victims in the state of Pennsylvania for the past seven decades. The report, released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday, investigated clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses dating back to 1947 and accused the Roman Catholic ...

IRNA - The lawyer representing the porn actress Stormy Daniels has said he now represents three other women who he claims had relationships with Donald Trump and were paid hush money before the 2016 US presidential election, AFP reported. Michael Avenatti first revealed the information at a community forum in West Hollywood, California, and later ...

MNA A high school supervisor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, 2-year dismissal from service and lashes over charges of sexual harassment of minors, Tehran prosecutor general said Tuesday. Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced the sentence on Tuesday, adding, however, that the sentence has not yet been finalized. On May 28, families of some ...

MNA The Chief of Sistan and Balouchestan province announced that the main suspect in the case of the serial rapes in Iranshahr County of the province was arrested. The Police Chief of Sistan and Balouchestan province in southeastern Iran, Brigadier General Mohammad Ghanbari announced that the serial rapist who had committed several cases ...

MNA Issuing a formal decree on Sunday, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli urged the governor general of Sistan and Balouchestan Province to follow up the case. After the news of some moral insecurity evens in Iranshahr, a county in Sistan and Balouchestan Province in southeastern Iran, was spread, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza ...

Tasnim Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani on Wednesday issued an order for immediately dealing with a shocking criminal case, in which a high school official in Tehran has been accused of sexually abusing a number of schoolboys. Regarding the received report about a shocking and regrettable incident in a school in western Tehran ...

MNA Leader of Islamic Revolution has ordered Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani to immediately carry out 'Hudud' against the convicts of a sexual harassment case in a high school in Tehran. Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed regret in a statement on Tuesday over the heinous crime in one of the schools in ...

Press TV - The lawyer of imprisoned 17-year-old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi has accused her Israeli interrogatorof sexual harassment. According to the Middle East Monitorwebsite on Wednesday, Gaby Lasky has filed a complaint with the Israeli general attorney pertaining to the inappropriate manner of Tamimi's interrogation while emphasizing ...

IFP - Yemenis from all walks of life have held rallies and issued separate statements vehemently condemning the abuse of a Yemeni woman by a Sudanese mercenary in western al-Hudaydah province. The Yemenis unanimously blamed the United Nations Security Council for similar crimes carried out against women in the impoverished nation. In a huge ...

IRNA A Tehran court has decided to put to death members of a newfangled pervert sexual sect on charges of promoting prostitution and vice. The culprits are a woman and a man who are responsible for creating the pervert sexual sect and attempting to entice people to join the illicit sect, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said during a meeting ...

AFP- German police arrested seven Afghan asylum seekers in raids on refugee shelters Thursday on suspicion the men repeatedly raped an Iranian teenager and filmed the sexual assault. More than 30 police joined the raids on 10 rooms in several accommodation facilities in the towns of Nagold and Wildberg in the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg,...

Dozens of people have held a rally in the US state of California to protest against sexual violence after a former Stanford University student who raped an unconscious woman was released from prison after spending only three months behind bars. Hours after Brock Turner's release on Friday, protesters chanted and waved signs outside the Santa ...

Pope Francis has acknowledged the widespread sexual abuse committed by Christian priests in the US Catholic Church and warned that such crimes should never be repeated. In remarks delivered to Catholic bishops at Saint Matthews Cathedral in Washington on Wednesday, the pope praisedtheir response to the sex abuse scandal while failing to mention ...

The United Nations has named June 19 as the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict in a bid to end abuses against women and girls in conflict zones worldwide. The UN General Assembly on Friday approved the resolution, co-sponsored by 113 countries, and the day will be commemorated annually to raise awareness of the ...

UN peacekeepers deployed in Haiti engaged in transactional sexual relationships for food and medicine with over 200 women and underage girls, a draft report seen by the Associated Press suggests, noting that many cases of abuse remain underreported. According to a new UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) report obtained by the news agency,...

QOM, Apr. 09 (MNA) Irans Parliament speaker who visits the central city of Qom as his constituency has urged the officials to address the sexual harassment case in Jeddah airport. Ali Larijani who was addressing the provincial administrative session of Qom on Thursday, said that the despicable act of sexual harassment by Saudi airport security ...

[caption id="attachment_117180" align="alignright" width="264"] A woman walks past a poster showing mascots of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon[/caption] Asian Games organisers on Wednesday kicked out an Iranian official for sexually harassing a female volunteer and issued strong warnings after two alleged cases in two days. The Olympic Council of ...

Three men, including a Dubai policeman and two fake officers, have kidnapped two young female Iranian tourists and raped one of them. The men riding in a car first approached the two Iranian women. Then one of them stepped out of the vehicle and punched one of the female tourists on the nose, accusing her of being drunk. Afterwards, the three men ...