Marlene Schiappa, 40, is no stranger to controversy and has repeatedly angered rightwingers. Can posing for Playboy be a feminist statement? A French government minister thinks so and has defended her decision to appear -- clothed -- on the front cover of the notorious magazine. Marlene Schiappa, a 40-year-old feminist author who was plucked from obscurity by President Emmanuel Macron in 2017, is no stranger to controversy and has repeatedly angered rightwingers. But even the prime minister and leftwing critics feel the minister for the social economy and associations has made a mistake with her latest stunt: posing for Playboy to accompany a 12-page interview on women's and gay rights as well as abortion. "Defending the right of women to do what they want with their bodies: everywhere and all the time," Schiappa wrote on Twitter on Saturday. "In France, women are free. Whether it annoys the retrogrades and hypocrites or not." The decision has irritated some ...
Witness accounts contained contradictions and failed to support the prosecution’s arguments, additional sessions judge Leelabhai Chudasama said on Friday The acquittals come eight months after 11 lifers, convicted of gang-raping a pregnant Bilkis Bano and killing seven members of her family during the 2002 violence, had their sentences remitted by the Gujarat government and were released. The acquittals come eight months after 11 lifers, convicted of gang-raping a pregnant Bilkis Bano and killing seven members of her family during the 2002 violence, had their sentences remitted by the Gujarat government and were released. File Photo | New Delhi | Published 03.04.23, 05:18 AM A Gujarat court has acquitted for want of evidence all the 26 people accused in connection with a gang rape and the murder of over a dozen Muslims in separate incidents in Kalol during the 2002 riots. The witness accounts contained contradictions and failed to support the p...