On January 27th police arrested five Romanians suspected of a horrendous gang rape a week earlier.
It follows the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi in December which outraged India.
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Remember the Duke lacrosse case, in which members of the team were accused of a gang rape.
Earlier, in October, a French prosecutor dropped an investigation connecting Strauss-Kahn to a possible gang rape in Washington.
It comes after the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi in December sparked demands for tougher laws.
Police arrested six people following an alleged gang rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh state last week.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned the gang rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old girl who later died.
India has seen outrage over the recent fatal gang rape of a student.
The incident comes barely two months after the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi caused outrage across India.
Ministers approved many of the recommendations on Friday, paving the way for raising the penalty for gang rape to life.
The gang rape in New Delhi on Dec. 16 had triggered calls to strengthen Indian laws dealing with violence against women.
There has been growing outrage in India at the treatment of women after the fatal gang rape of a woman in December.
India is strengthening the law following widespread public demand after the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in December.
India is strengthening its laws following widespread public demand after the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in December.
But the brutality of the Delhi gang rape case has led many in India to call for harsher punishment for juvenile criminals.
Indian authorities have charged five men with kidnap, gang rape and murder.
The incident happened barely two months after the brutal gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi that caused outrage across India.
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An Indian police official has told BBC News there were no confessions over the gang rape of a Swiss tourist, contradicting earlier reports.
News of the case came shortly before a preliminary hearing in Delhi in the case of five suspects in last month's gang rape.
Public prosecutors have demanded that the five suspects be charged under the Indian Penal Code with crimes including murder, gang rape, robbery and kidnapping.
India's president has approved harsher punishment for rapists, including the death penalty, after the gang rape of a student sparked demands for tougher laws.
There have been calls for faster trials in India after the recent gang rape and death of a young woman on a Delhi bus.
Women's rights activist Lisa Vetten says in the province of Gauteng, where Johannesburg is located, one in every five rapes is a gang rape.
But Brazilian media already are drawing parallels between this attack and the infamous gang rape of a young woman on a bus in India.
Police in a suburb of the Indian capital, Delhi, have arrested two men in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old girl on Saturday.
Most Indian news TV channels and websites are giving wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh in the capital's Tihar jail.
In the video, recorded in her London home, Ms Shankar, 31, appealed for people to support the campaign in memory of the 23-year-old gang rape victim.
Last month, French prosecutors ended an investigation into allegations of "gang rape" at a hotel in Washington after the woman who made the claim retracted her evidence.
One of them, 33-year-old Jose Medellin, is scheduled for execution in less than three weeks for his part in the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in 1993.
The law raises the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of gang rape or raping a minor to 20 years and allows for the death penalty in extreme cases.
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