Appellant’s challenge to conviction, sentence against unnatural relations with sister-in-law dismissed

Lower security prison for Maxwell, Trump claims no knowledge about case.

PUTRAJAYA, June 20 — The Federal Court has fixed August 27 to hear former Tronoh assemblyman Paul Yong Choo Kiong’s appeal against his conviction and imprisonment for allegedly raping his maid.

VANNES, May 29 — A retired French surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of young patients, many of them children, over more than two decades, received a 20-year jail sentence on Wednesday, in France's worst ever child abuse case to go to trial.

PUTRAJAYA, May 14 — The Court of Appeal has upheld the 36-year prison sentence and 24 strokes of the cane imposed on a workshop owner convicted of incest and sexually assaulting his 12-year-old daughter over three consecutive days, four years ago.

NEW YORK, April 15 — Harvey Weinstein is set to stand trial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan today, a year after a state appeals court overturned the former movie mogul’s 2020 conviction.

PUTRAJAYA, March 21 — A labourer who pleaded guilty to raping a civil servant twice and unlawfully entering her home has been sentenced to 33 years in prison and 20 strokes of the cane.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 — A doctor pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court today to two charges of rape and engaging in unnatural intercourse with a clinic assistant on Saturday.

PUTRAJAYA, March 12 — The Court of Appeal has reduced the jail sentence of a former debt collector from 13 years to 10 years for sexually assaulting his 11-year-old son in 2019.

VANNES, Mar 1 — When police told Louis-Marie, 35, they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he thought it was a prank.

PARIS, Dec 30 — Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to 20 years in jail by a French court for repeatedly drugging and raping his then-wife Gisele for almost a decade and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her, will not appeal, his lawyer said today, although a new trial will take place as 17 co-defendants have appealed.

AVIGNON, Dec 19 — A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty today of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body in a case that has horrified the world.

PARIS, Dec 18 — Around late September, staff manning the phones at 3919, France’s main anonymous hotline for women who are victims of violence, began noticing a new type of case.

JOHOR BAHRU, Dec 18 — A private orphanage in Kulai, near here, that went viral after its chairman was allegedly involved in rape and abuse cases involving the residents, has been ordered to temporarily close.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — A security guard was sentenced to 15 years in prison and nine strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court today after pleading guilty to two charges of rape and one charge of having intercourse against the order of nature with a disabled teenage girl, who was also his acquaintance, last month.

SHAH ALAM, Nov 5 — The prosecution in the case of Syed Shah Iqmal Syed Mohd Shaiful has filed an appeal at the High Court seeking longer imprisonment.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — A van driver was sentenced to 10 years in prison and two strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here today after pleading guilty to raping his stepdaughter, who gave birth to their baby last year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — A security guard pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to charges of raping and sexually assaulting his 15-year-old daughter.

KOLKATA, Oct 22 — Junior doctors in India's eastern city of Kolkata called off a 17-day-old hunger strike yesterday, which launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 — More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, the United Nations children’s agency said yesterday.