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Dominique Pelicot given maximum 20-year sentence in France rape trial that has shocked the world
Dominique Pelicot, 72, has been found guilty of all charges in the rape and drugging of his then-wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and on Thursday was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in the massive trial that has shaken France and shocked the world.
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France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has Changed the Country
Gisèle Pelicot has opened up a conversation about sexual violence in a country where a serious reckoning was well overdue.
France's shocking mass rape trial is over. But will Gisèle Pelicot's case change rape culture?
Gisèle Pelicot has been lauded as a hero, but it’s a far cry from typical experiences of sexual assault survivors in Canada and around the world. Here's why some advocates say a guilty verdict won't necessarily change rape culture.
France’s mass rape trial ends with justice doubts
Dominique Pelicot and 50 men were found guilty in a shocking French mass rape trial involving his wife, Gisèle Pelicot. Dominique, who orchestrated the crimes, received the maximum 20-year sentence, while others received lighter penalties, prompting outrage.
Verdicts awaited in rape trial that shocked France
The French man who has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife on Thursday faces being jailed for up to 20 years as the court issues its verdicts after a three-month trial that shocked France and resonated around the world.
Verdicts due for 51 men in Pelicot mass rape trial that shook France
Judges will deliver verdicts on the defendants in a case that turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon.
Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband, dozens of others found guilty in rape and drugging trial in France
Gisèle Pelicot said she had no regrets, but hope for the future after a judge sentenced her ex-husband to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her for years.
Pelicot rape trial shifts France's practices around drug-facilitated assaults
Around late September, staff manning the phones at 39 19, France's main anonymous hotline for women who are victims of violence, began noticing a new type of case.
Judges in France are delivering verdicts in the Gisèle Pelicot historic rape trial
A panel of judges in France is delivering verdicts for more than four dozen men charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault on Gisèle Pelicot.
Gisèle Pelicot thanks backers after her ex-husband and his co-defendants are convicted in rape trial
Gisèle Pelicot spoke of her "very difficult ordeal" after 51 men were convicted Thursday in the drugging-and-rape trial that riveted France and turned her into an icon.
Gisèle Pelicot speaks after ex-husband found guilty of rapes, sentenced to 20 years in France
Pelicot became an icon for many women in France and beyond after her courageous demand that all the evidence be heard in open court.
The France rape trial throws up a difficult question about porn fantasies - and male desire
Are extreme fantasies about dominating women that were once just that - fantasies - now becoming more normalised in reality ...
France’s landmark mass rape trial is over. But the Pelicot case demonstrates that systemic violence against women runs deep
It’s the landmark trial that has upended French society and prompted some deep soul searching about sexual violence and ...
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51 men convicted in rape trial that transfixed France
AVIGNON, France — Gisèle Pelicot spoke of her “very difficult ordeal” after 51 men were convicted Thursday in the ...
With Guilty Verdicts, Rape Victim’s Ordeal in France Becomes a Message of Hope
Dozens of men who abused Gisèle Pelicot were convicted, including the man who invited them to do so: her husband of 50 years.