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Finnish-Canadian sportswear mogul Peter Nygård is sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault.
2024-09-9

FIFA suspends Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales for 90 days for kissing player Jennifer Hermoso after the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final. Hermoso says that Rubiales acted without her consent, which Rubiales denies.
2023-08-26

Authorities reveal that the attackers who attempted to assassinate Ugandan general Katumba Wamala in Kampala were Islamic extremists who were trained in a jihadist camp in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, and had links with the Allied Democratic Forces and the Islamic State. Wamala was injured during the attack but survived, while his daughter and his driver were killed.
2021-07-1

The Metropolitan Police of London announces a review of 21 rapes and sexual assaults as well as 12 other offences including violence and burglaries over inadequately performed "undeclared casework" by a forensic scientist.
2018-05-8

The United Nations reports the discovery of five "likely" mass graves in Blukwa Centre and Maze-Waliba in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo.
2018-04-26

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa fire on protesters opposing efforts by President Joseph Kabila to delay presidential and parliamentary elections due in 2016 leaving at least four people dead and ten injured.
2015-01-19

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, who was in charge of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, is arrested on charges of sexual assault.
2013-05-6

Nigel Evans, a deputy speaker of the United Kingdom House of Commons, is arrested for allegedly raping two men.
2013-05-4

The trial of two Rwandan rebel leaders charged in connection with their part in crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out by their militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2008 and 2009, begins in the Stuttgart high court, Germany.
2011-05-4

Russell Williams escalated to sexual assaults and culminated in the brutal sex killings of Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 37, and Jessica Lloyd, 27. Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for two murders, several sexual assaults and dozens of fetish burglaries.
2010-10-21