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An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over a lack of safety for women.
Kolkata, India Reuters —
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attended on Tuesday a Constitutional Court hearing of his impeachment trial, where he denied ordering military commanders to drag lawmakers out of parliament during his short-lived bid to impose martial law.
They say other individuals apart from convicted hospital volunteer worker Sanjay Roy should have been questioned and that the medical fraternity’s working conditions in Kolkata and elsewhere in India remain abysmal.
At least 16 people have been killed and five more are missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Indonesia’s Central Java province, local police and disaster officials said on Tuesday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered the bodies of at least 17 people who were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java, officials said Tuesday. Eight people were missing.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, leaving 15 people with minor injuries.
An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor last year, a crime that sparked nationwide protests over inadequate safety for women and led to a speedy trial in the country’s slow-moving justice system.
The killing of the 31-year-old medic at a state-run hospital in Kolkata city highlighted the chronic issue of violence against women in the country.