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Somalia Jails Woman and Journalist Over Soldier Rape Claims

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In a case provoking an international outcry, Somalia has sentenced to jail a woman who reported being raped by soldiers, along with a journalist who spoke to her about the attack.

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“Rape is perhaps the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused,” wrote Freda Adler in her seminal 1975 book, Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal.

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The phrase proved to be particularly true earlier this week in Somalia, where a court sentenced a 27-year-old woman—who was...

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