The Criminal Code prohibited rape, and marital rape was considered rape.

Tom, did you rape Mayella Ewell?

Murder! Rape!

Rape? !

Rape! Rape!

Rape!

A woman who was reportedly raped on 2 October said that a Bashingantahe settled the rape case and she accepted a payment from the perpetrator in exchange for not registering a complaint.

A murderer!

There are more people being raped. There are more wars.

A woman was raped and presented with a series of photographs from which to identify her attacker.

The previous law on rape in Namibia contributed to marital rape (a man raping his wife) and rape of people other than women, because these crimes were legally defined not as rape, but as indecent assault (Iipinge and LeBeau 1997 80).

The crime of rape has for the first time become the crime against humanity.

Murder and rape?

He met another woman whose rapists had cut her belly open with a knife after raping her, and another who had been raped by 10 soldiers and then shot in the lower abdomen, having told her attackers beforehand that she was three months pregnant.

The Combating of Rape Act provides for stiff minimum sentences for rapists.

He was sent up for 15 years for making love to the constable's daughter when she didn't want it.

Sodomy, oral sex and penetration by foreign objects are not considered rape.

Rape also continues.

He did not rape me.

Murder, rape,

As a response to the increasing number of rape cases, the Government of Namibia enacted the Combating of Rape Act in 2000 (Act 8 of 2000).

Alleged cases of domestic violence, rape, attempted rape and sexual assault are regularly reported.

He calls on donors to provide the necessary funding for this purpose

As recommended by the Committee that the law on rape should cover rape within marriage, the Combating of Rape Act covers rape within marriage.

The Combating of Rape Act provides that no marriage or other relationship will be a defense to a charge of rape.

Rape and sexual assault

You were in love with the man that raped you?

I was 15 when I was gang raped by eight men.

He was arrested on charges of raping and mutilating a woman.

Federal Ministry of Interior has collected data for the period from 1996 2001 regarding criminal charges on criminal offences of rape, fornication, unnatural acts and rape over an underage persons, soliciting for purposes of engaging in prostitution, in total 954, number of police interventions for ill treatment and abuse of women, in total 27,961,

Thus all cases of rape, irrespective of the marital or other status are prosecuted ex officio.

He can also claim compensation from any man who raped or attempted to rape his betrothed.

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At the same time, it was claimed, several soldiers had raped his wife.

124. The Committee recommends that the seriousness of rape, including marital rape, be emphasized and the law fully enforced.

Some women have been raped on their way to the fields and again on their way back.

As a response to the increasing number and brutal nature of rape cases, organisations from a diverse spectrum of social and political life have made appeals to the Ministry of Justice and the Law Reform and Development Commission for new laws on rape that give stiffer sentences for convicted rapists, revise the definition of rape, remove the marital rape exemption, etc.

The National Committee on Rape has yet to demonstrate an impact on the prevention or prosecution of rape in Northern Darfur.

Despite strong condemnation of widespread rape during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, perpetrators have generally enjoyed impunity.

Each year about (600) cases of rape and 150 cases of attempted rape are reported to the Namibian Police.

A rapist who knowingly exposes a rape complainant to HIV through the rape would receive the heaviest minimum sentence.

In August, cases of rape included three victims aged 4, 8 and 17, in Makamba and Muramvya provinces.

Laws have been promulgated on the suppression of rape, the penalty for which could be up to life imprisonment, and on the suppression of crimes of physical violence against women.

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Several girls were raped.