IN 2016 Mahmood Farooqui was given 7 yeas in prison for raping a Columbia University graduate student. She said no and he kept pulling her undergarments off. She kept pulling them up while he was pulling them off. He finally held her down and raped her.
His lawyers appealed to the supreme court. His prison sentence was overturned. It seems that her "No" was feeble. It was still no. The rape still occurred.
India is a large and great country. Its has a rich culture. The problem is it also has a pervasive rape culture. "That means the view of women is one that women must be dominated by any means possible and rape is something they asked for." What is worse is the legal system makes this possible.
Google India releases rapist in order to see how bad the situation is.
I watched news feeds and read information from the following links before blogging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/asia/indian-court-overturns-rape-conviction/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/26/a-feeble-no-may-mean-yes-indian-court-overturns-conviction
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