- Tara Flik Wood, a trans-identified male, is on trial for assaulting Maria MacLachlan at a feminist gathering at Speaker’s Corner last year. In court, the judge required the alleged victim to use explicitly female pronouns for Wood, at Wood’s request.
- Julie Bindel reports on the abuses suffered by trafficked women in the Cambodian brothels of Phnom Penh.
- Charges have been filed in India against several men involved in kidnapping and gang-raping an eight-year-old girl before murdering her and dumping her body, in what was apparently intended as a way to drive her nomadic Bakerwahl community away from the area. Local police are alleged to have aided the coverup by laundering the girl’s clothes before submitting them as evidence.
- With the reporting ban lifted, press are free to report on evidence withheld from the jury that acquitted Paddy Jackson of rape, including evidence of bloody sheets, the location of a semen stain, and a pornographic video shared by the alleged assailants in a private chat about the incident.
- Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has been accused in an independent legislative report of the sexual and physical abuse of a woman he detained at his home against her will, and lawmakers from both parties are calling on him to resign.