Long Beach police have released surveillance video of a man who is suspected of raping a woman last week. It happened on Wednesday at around 1 a.m. in an alleyway near W. 10th Street and Pacific Avenue,

Protests erupted in West Bengal last August after the body of a trainee doctor was found with multiple injuries in a hospital lecture hall.

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) -An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over a lack of safety for women.

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Authorities in southern India have detained almost 50 men suspected of repeatedly raping and sexually abusing a girl from the age of 13.

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A court in India has convicted a man of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor - a crime that sparked nationwide outrage. Sanjay Roy, a hospital volunteer worker, was found guilty over the attack, which happened in August last year at a hospital in Kolkata city in West Bengal state.

A court found a police volunteer guilty of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor, a crime that sparked protests and hospital strikes amid concerns over lack of safety for women.

Sanjay Roy was on Saturday held guilty of sexually assaulting the trainee doctor and throttling her to death in August last year.

However, there cannot be conviction solely upon the statement of a rape victim particularly when there are material contradictions in her version, the court added.

Kolkata rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy claimed his innocence in court on Monday when the judge asked if he had anything to say about the quantum of punishment.

Ahead of the court's order, the CBI has called for a death penalty for Sanjay Roy, citing the RG Kar rape and murder as a "rarest of rare case" involving a meritorious trainee doctor.