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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Women to Wear One-Eye Veil to Prevent 'Seduction'
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Saudi Cleric Says Women Must Wear One-Eye Veil to Prevent 'Seduction'
Saturday, October 04, 2008
A Muslim cleric has called for Saudi women to wear a full veil, or nigab, that reveals only one eye, in order to control seduction, the BBC reported Friday.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said that women in Saudi Arabia are encouraged to use eye makeup and look seductive when allowed to wear a veil that exposes both eyes.
How much of their face Muslim women expose differs from country to country, and is an area of contention. The nigab is more common in Saudi Arabia, but in many Muslim societies women wear a headscarf that covers only their hair. more
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
SC slams Orissa HC for acquitting a rape convict on absurd reasons
New Delhi, Dec. 16: The Supreme Court today slammed the Orissa High Court for acquitting a rape convict on the absurd reasoning that the victim was a healthy tribal woman capable of resisting the alleged rape and that there was only one eye witness to the alleged crime.
A bench of Justices ~ Mr Arijit Pasayat and Mr Mukundakam Sharma, in a judgement, said that the High Court had taken a wrong view that the accused was either falsely implicated or that it was a case of consensual sex.
“The conclusions are not only confusing but border on absurdity. It baffles us as to why the High Court says that 'law is well settled that it is not possible for a single man to commit sexual intercourse with a healthy adult female in full possession of her senses against her will'. There is not even a single decision which says so,” the apex court observed while quashing the acquittal order passed by the High Court.
In this case the accused Sukru Gowda had allegedly raped the victim in the forest area which was witnessed by another person. On the basis of medical evidence and the purported eye witness account, the Special Judge-cum-Sessions judge, Koraput, Jeypore convicted the accused.
The convict filed an appeal in the High Court which however, disbelieved the prosecution's version and acquitted Gowda of the charge with the above reasoning and other observations. n pti
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Women get help for sex addiction
It's more likely you'll hear of a man being a sex addict than a woman. But Newsbeat's own research has found that there's a growing number of females seeking help for the condition in the UK. Many therapists in the US say it's the same there. Rob Weiss, a sex addiction specialist, estimates around 20% of sex addicts in America are women. He works at the Life Healing Centre in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which specialises in sex addiction treatment at a price: around £20,000 for a month's therapy. Newsbeat spent a day in rehab with the female patients. Group therapy The women addicts live together on campus in a red bricked bungalow. There are five bedrooms and each room has two or three single beds. Patients are not allowed TVs, laptops, or mobile phones. They start off their day by chanting "it's not your fault".
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