A pardon for an Afghan woman who was imprisoned for adultery after she reported being raped came with the expectation that she would marry her attacker.
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Jailed Afghan Woman Freed but Urged to Marry Rapist
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian attacker wounded seven Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub early Monday, hitting a police checkpoint with a stolen taxi and then stabbing others, police said. The attacker was a Palestinian in his twenties from the city of Nablus, according to Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri. Just before 2 a.m., the attacker stole a taxi in south Tel Aviv and then drove into a police checkpoint securing the street near a popular nightclub, she said. Read full article > >
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Israeli police say 7 people wounded in Palestinian attack in Tel Aviv
A Peace Corps volunteer had been raped in Bolivia and wanted justice. Within hours, Julie De Mello was on an airplane from Washington to meet the victim. De Mello, employed by the Peace Corps as a senior federal agent investigating crimes against volunteers, worked with the 23-year-old victim, Erin Bingham, to sketch the attacker. De Mello took Bingham to a police lineup, hired a lawyer to represent her and worked with local police to track down witnesses. De Mello believes her advocacy helped convict the rapist in 2008. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Read full article > >
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Crimes against volunteers vex Peace Corps
A New York man is convicted of murdering an indebted motivational speaker who prosecutors said paid his attacker to stab him to death.
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NY man guilty in ‘suicide’ murder
Detectives hunting a rapist who attacked a woman in an alley by Manchester Town Hall hope an appeal on Crimewatch will trace her attacker.
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TV appeal over town hall rapist
She tried to use her purse to smack a gunman into submission. Now, the Florida school member’s handbag is up on eBay — with proceeds from its sale going toward a charity championed by the man who ended up taking down the attacker.
Israeli police say 7 people wounded in Palestinian attack in Tel Aviv
Monday, August 29th, 2011
