Somalia arrests woman over rape allegations

[Homunculus]

Apophis;987136 wrote:

The article you yourself posted makes what you're claiming null and void (maybe you should have read it).

As you can see, she (and the journalist) were arrested for defamation, she admitted it under police questioning and she's being taken to court. The station was closed down last month and has no direct connection to the case (as far as we can see).

If she was raped she should have gone to the police. She didn't (as far as we know) and thus there's no case to answer for.

I read the article and read the part that was highlighted thus ( Did they arrest her to force her to change her testimony?). They arrested her and the journalist and then provided this tidbit. Don't you find it strange for them to arrest everyone in that radio station and the rape victim for offending a state institution and defamation and then after arresting her they managed to get this confession. This is not the first time and it will not be the last, this culture of intimidation is normal and condoned. According to you this is how it is supposed to work.

Woman claimed to be raped ------> Don't book the alleged criminals for questioning instead arrest the woman and the journalist for defamation -----> After arresting the woman extract confession.

[Homunculus]

Apophis;987138 wrote:

You can read the article the way it is written or you can read it they way you want it to be written. One of those is problematic (I'll let you figure out which one).

The moral of the story is, this case was botched and botched badly, her allegations might have been bogus but the conduct of the police and the office of the president made it worse. The majority of rape victims in the world don't pursue legal actions and when they do they usually suffer more than the alleged rapist. Somalia is not equipped to investigate rape allegations (they don't have DNA,rape kits or qualified doctors), and for some here to lay the burden of the proof on the "victim" (some even mentioned 4 witnesses!) they perpetuate the culture of blaming the "victim". By their standards it's better for a rape victim to remain silent in Somalia ( it pains me to say this might be true), if you think it's bad when a women is raped it's infinitely worse when she go public, it's not a coincidence that they are the ones who were arrested.