• MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    “Rape” she means strip-searched.

    Edit: To be clear: That doesn’t mean it’s not bad. I just wouldn’t call it rape. Illegal strip-searches are bad.

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      The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her…

      The victim and the article distinguish between the already-illegal strip search and the sexual assault.

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      When she refused, guards pulled off her clothes, groped her and forced her to kneel. One of them inserted her fingers into Liedtke’s vagina and then her anus, Liedtke said.

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      5 days ago

      To respond to your edit: rape was accurate, even with the pretense of a strip search. Do not tell us what she meant. You are trivializing what happened to her.

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      Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article:

      "Israeli law defines rape as all non-consensual penetration.

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      When she refused, guards pulled off her clothes, groped her and forced her to kneel. One of them inserted her fingers into Liedtke’s vagina and then her anus, Liedtke said.

      “There were two and then later three female soldiers that told me to take off my clothes,” she said. “They started touching me. I said no. I told them I don’t want to be touched and that they were hurting me. Then they grabbed my hands, so I couldn’t move, then they pushed me down and I still tried to scream, and then they covered my mouth so I couldn’t scream.”"

      That meets the legal definition of Rape under Israeli law.

      Even in cases, like Trump in New York, where it only becomes sexual assault:

      https://www.courthousenews.com/narrow-focus-on-rape-definition-wont-get-trump-a-new-trial/

      “The finding that Ms.Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’” Kaplan wrote. “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”