Most of Asia's common law jurisdictions (countries such as Singapore, Pakistan and Malaysia) have also abolished jury trials, ...

Here is how a trial could work without a jury. An option could be to give Magistrates Courts the powers to hand custodial sentences of more than one year, as is the current limit.

A French senator accused of having drugged a parliamentary deputy with the intention of sexually assaulting her has been sent for trial, AFP learnt on Friday from a source close to the case.

A French senator accused of having drugged a parliamentary deputy with the intention of sexually assaulting her has been sent for trial.

In December, a French court sentenced Pelicot's former husband Dominique to 20 years in prison, a verdict that also made headlines in Austria. So did the sentences handed down to 50 co-defendants, all ...

Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisele Pelicot who was drugged and raped by her husband and multiple other men, has blamed pornography for what her mother endured during her lifetime.

France's justice minister has ordered a probe into why investigators did not follow up two rape cases despite finding links to Dominique Pelicot, convicted in December for organising the rape of ...

The daughter of Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman found guilty last month of drugging his ex-wife so dozens of strangers could rape her, told the BBC on Saturday that her father "was always a ...

The Frenchman convicted of drugging and raping his then wife and soliciting dozens of men to do the same for more than a decade will not appeal his verdict, his lawyer said Monday. Dominique ...

Dominique Pelicot won’t appeal conviction in ex-wife’s rape trial in France The Frenchman was jailed for 20 years for drugging and raping his then-wife and soliciting dozens of men to do the same.

And men like Dominique Pelicot and his co-defendants, who are not monsters but something far more frightening – ordinary men, and products of a society where sexual violence still flourishes.

AVIGNON, France, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty on Thursday of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to ...