Conviction of 3 Japanese soldiers for rape
| A court in Japan found 3 former soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting a female member of the country's ground defense force. |
according to the report of the International Group Tasnim News Agency and quoted by South China Morning Post, a court in Fukushima, Japan found three former soldiers of this country’s army guilty of sexual assault. Rina Gonuy, a former member of the country’s ground defense force, was sentenced to a suspended sentence.
Accordingly, these three soldiers were sentenced to 2 years in prison for sexually assaulting Rina Gonovi and for “forced indecency” towards her during A military exercise in 2021, sentenced to 4 years of suspended prison.
This is a rare case in Japan’s history as a socially conservative country where the victims of these incidents rarely speak about it.
Gonvi The 24-year-old shared his story on YouTube last year after an internal military investigation into the case failed due to insufficient evidence. This act caused public attention and collected more than 100,000 signatures in this regard, which required the Ministry of Defense to inform about this case and apologize about it.
Finally, in March of this year, Japanese prosecutors made the initial decision to close the case to The reason for the lack of sufficient documents was canceled and these three soldiers who were fired by the army were accused.
Design Such cases like the case of Ms. Gonoway, and other cases like the case of sexual assault of a female journalist by a prominent television reporter in this country, are very rare.
Meanwhile, the results of a government research in 2021 in Japan indicate that about 6% of rape victims, including men and women, went to the police department to report the issue, while about half of the women participating in this research stated that they could not raise this issue because of “shame and embarrassment”. /span>
With this Now, following the initiation of the Japanese Ministry of Defense’s investigation into this case, more than 1,400 male and female members of the military have reported their accusations of sexual assault and bullying in the military.
| Publisher | Tasnim News |
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