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France Charges Founder Of Adult Website Linked To Mass Rape Trial: Prosecutors

France on Thursday charged the founder of an adult website used to commit sexual offences, including by a French man who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife, prosecutors said.

International Business Times

The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women

The conviction of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men for the aggravated rape of his wife Gisèle Pelicot, perpetrated over years of horrific violence has been shocking. Their trial revealed that Dominique Pelicot recruited men to rape his wife while she was comatose, having been drugged by him.

The Conversation

Dominique Pelicot Will Not Be Appealing His Sentence After Guilty Verdict In Gisèle Pelicot Trial

Rapist Dominique Pelicot, will not be appealing his sentence. Dominique was found guilty of drugging and raping his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot.

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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.

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Seventeen Men Appeal Pelicot Mass Rape Trial Verdict In France

The Pelicot mass rape trial in France exposes systemic sexual assault and misogyny, with 51 men convicted and sentences ranging from 3 to 20 years.

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Ex-husband Convicted In French Mass Rape Trial Will Not Appeal: Lawyer

The Frenchman found guilty 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 conviction, his lawyer said Monday.

International Business Times

Dominique Pelicot will not appeal 20-year rape sentence

The French man who was convicted of drugging and raping his then wife, Gisele Pelicot, and soliciting dozens strangers to do the same, will not appeal the verdict and 20-year prison sentence, his lawyers said Monday.

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Lawyer of Gisèle Pelicot’s rapist ex-husband gives update from jail

Gisèle has been applauded around the world for her bravery

The Independent UK

At least 15 men found guilty in Gisèle Pelicot rape and assault trial lodge appeals against convictions

A 30-year-old vineyard worker is among the men found guilty who have appealed against their convictions and will be given a second trial

The Independent UK

The year in patriarchy: coconut trees, ‘childless cat ladies’ and crimes against humanity

It’s now time to ‘hold space’ for everything that happened in 2024 with a list – so here are 10 of the biggest stories from the year in patriarchy

The Guardian - US

Gisèle Pelicot’s case highlights the need for a seismic change in men’s attitudes

Letters: Vicky Wolmuth hopes women’s resolve to fight for justice is strengthened, Pippa Gibbs was moved by an article that placed the focus and guilt on to the rapists. Plus a letter from Chris Green

The Guardian - UK

The unanswered questions after Gisele Pelicot rape trial

Fifty-one men have now been brought to justice, but questions remain after the trial that has shocked France and the wider world

The Independent UK

From Charli to Jilly to Moo Deng the hippo: the faces we won’t forget from 2024

Some made a splash in politics, social media, sport or the arts. Others took a brave personal stand. Observer writers and critics pick the names on everyone’s lips this year

The Guardian - UK

Gisèle Pelicot has ‘no fear’ over another trial as two men convicted of her rape lodge appeals

But Gisèle Pelicot does not want to be seen as an icon, one of her lawyers has said

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Gisèle Pelicot has no fear of another trial, lawyer says as appeals lodged

Two defendants have so far filed appeals and Dominique Pelicot is said to be considering challenge against sentence

The Independent UK

Security guard who caught Dominique Pelicot recalls he saw ‘terror and ‘fear’ in his eyes

Gisele Pelicot’s ex-husband Dominique Pelicot admitted to drugging and raping her for almost a decade

The Guardian - UK

‘How many more Gisèles are out there?’: Pelicot trial jolts fight against sexual violence

Mass rape case in France has stirred up strong emotions and advanced a new feminist discourse, observers say

The Independent UK

How a security guard helped Gisèle Pelicot discover her husband was drugging her in campaign of abuse

Dominique Pelicot was only caught after a security guard spotted him upskirting women in a supermarket

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Al Jazeera

Who are the 51 men in Gisele Pelicot rape case; will old cases be reopened?

Investigators in France have reopened old cases, investigating Dominique Pelicot for rape and murder in the 1990s.

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Landmark Pelicot Mass Rape Trial Sparks National Conversation On Consent

The Pelicot mass rape case in France triggers national dialogue on sexual violence, consent, and legal changes.

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: Will the Gisèle Pelicot case finally change how we view violence against women?

In today’s newsletter: For years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and recruited men to rape her. It could be a turning point in social and legal attitudes to sexual assault

The Independent UK

Gisele Pelicot's Australian supporters are moved that their French heroine wore an Aboriginal scarf

A group of Gisele Pelicot’s Australian admirers say they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Aboriginal art

International Business Times

Five People Who Defined 2024

From great leaps in artificial intelligence to the heroic defendant in a mass rape trial that shocked France, here are the stories of five people who made their mark on 2024: - Gisele Pelicot: anti-rape icon - Gisele Pelicot, 72, was at the centre of a mass rape trial in…

The Guardian - AU

‘The world’s bravest woman’: what the papers say about the end of the Pelicot trial

Papers quote from Gisèle Pelicot’s speech outside court, after her ex-husband Dominique and 50 others were found guilty in France’s biggest rape trial

The Independent UK

What the papers say – December 20

Here are the biggest stories leading Friday’s front pages.

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