Prostitution in Israel: Trial by fire
The horror is concealed beneath her
clothes. The fire slowly licked every inch
of her body. Limb after limb, without
letup. But seven years later Yelena tells her story
calmly, without tears, without
trembling. At the most difficult
moments she laughs.
6-2-2008
Iraq:
Gang-rape cover-up by US A Houston, Texas woman says she
was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in
Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government
are covering up the incident. KBR Jamie Leigh
Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by
multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone.
6-2-2008
Proposed legislation could end all prostitution advertising in Israel Meretz MK Zehava
Gal-On is set to unveil legislation Tuesday that will
potentially ban all media - including promotional
pamphlets and "business cards" - from advertising
prostitution services and providing possible clients
with access to the sex industry.
7-3-2008
Iran's 'diagnosed transsexuals' Homosexual relationships are banned in
Iran, but the country allows sex change operations and
hundreds of men have elected for surgery to change their
lives. "He wants to kill me. He keeps telling me to come
home so he can kill me. He had put rat poison in my
tea." 29-2-2008
Saudi Arabia: 'Vice' crackdown at malls Saudi Arabia's religious police ordered
the arrest of 57 young men last week for "flirting" with
members of the opposite sex while hanging out at
shopping malls. 29-2-2008
Israel's top court backs plea deal in Katsav sex case Israel's Supreme Court
accepted on Tuesday a highly controversial deal under
which former president Moshe Katsav avoided prosecution
for rape but pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
29-2-2008
Jump reported in number of sexual violence cases at Israeli schools Incidences of sexual
violence in schools increased 26 percent last year, the
Ministry of Education's Psychological Counseling Service
(Shefi) said this week. Annual incidents of abuse,
meanwhile, soared from 186 seven years ago to 404 last
year. Shefi's department for combating child abuse is
handling 24 percent more cases.
22-2-2008
Iran sex changes get mullahs' money as regime persecutes gays Nasser didn't think
much of Iran's Islamic regime -- until it paid for him
to become a woman. Growing up in the city of Mashhad,
Nasser knew he was different from the other boys,
sneaking around in his aunt's skirts and experimenting
with makeup. At age 14, he told his parents he wanted to
have a sex change. 15-2-2008
Iranian sisters face stoning for adultery Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery
face being stoned to death after the supreme court
upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad
newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying.
15-2-2008
Saudi: Why we punished rape victims The case, which has sparked media
scrutiny of the Saudi legal system, centers on a married
woman. The 19-year-old and an unrelated man were
abducted, and she was raped by a group of seven men more
than a year ago, according to Abdulrahman al-Lahim, the
attorney who represented her in court.
6-2-2008
Prostitution behind the veil in Iran Minna and Fariba are neighbours and good
friends. They support one another. Both have to live
under the pervasive curtailment of women's rights and
the double standards of today's Iranian society. They
make a living walking the streets looking for men. They
have a choice between leaving their small children at
home alone or bringing them along when they have sex
with men. 14-11-2007
Israel: Sexual molestation of minors up 16% Recent government data shows 16% rise in
sexual molestation of minors since 2000. Numbers
believed to be higher since many cases go unreported.
'If the State keeps ignoring the problem nothing will
change,' says Head of National Council for the Child.
3-11-2007
Porn site fosters Mideast relations An Israeli porn site is proving
surprisingly popular with Web surfers in a number of
Arab countries, some of which don't have diplomatic
relations with Israel. Ratuv, Hebrew for "wet,"
specializes in producing skinflicks with topical
political themes, typically featuring scenes involving
female soldiers, Mossad agents and members of the
military. 30-8-2007
Women 'duped into sex slavery' Many Asian women in Bahrain are being
duped into working as sex slaves for men who lure them
with promises of marriage, according to Thai Ambassador
Phithak Phrombubpha. He says victims are put up in
apartments and visited once a week by their boyfriends,
who brainwash them into believing they will eventually
live together and start a family.
22-8-2007
Dubai: Jailed for forcing girl into prostitution A man on a visit visa who forced a
teenager into prostitution has been sentenced to six
months in jail. The 15-year-old had escaped from Iraq to
Syria with her family and was later persuaded by a
relative that she should become a prostitute to help her
family. 8-8-2007
Bahrain: Hotelier held over vice trade racket A hotelier who allegedly forced an Arab
girl in her early teens to work as a prostitute in his
restaurant has been arrested, it emerged this week.
15-7-2007
Saudi Arabia: Overstayers marriage - a mask for prostitution? With tens of
thousands of overstayers in the Kingdom, marriages
between Saudis, expatriates and overstayers is
inevitable. However, such marriages come with problems
and many are seemingly a front for prostitution as this
reporter investigates.
5-7-2007
Soft porn SMS in Kuwait: Tawdry advertising mobile phones A short text message
sent to local mobile phone users offers what seems to be
sexual services - or at least sex talk - over the phone.
How did such a service get the numbers of people in
Kuwait? What are telecom firms doing to block such
unsavory advertisers?.
5-7-2007
4 ex-KBR workers sue over Iraq rape and sex harassment charges Four women who
worked for Houston-based Halliburton Co.'s former
subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root have filed federal
lawsuits against the companies, claiming they endured
sexual harassment and, in two cases rape, while working
in Iraq. 1-7-2007
'50,000 Iraqis' forced into prostitution They are dessed in tight jeans, low-cut
tops and knee-high boots, but the girls' make-up can't
disguise the fact that most are in their mid-teens. It's
a strange sight in a conservative Muslim country, but
this is the sex business, and it's booming as a result
of the war in Iraq. 1-7-2007
How to stop illicit affairs? Have one-hour marriages, says Iranian cleric Some see it
as a divinely sanctioned safety valve to ease sexual
frustration; others call it a hypocritical cover for
prostitution. The Shia Muslim tradition of temporary
marriage, or sigheh, allows a man and a woman in Iran to
marry for a set period of time, ranging from an hour to
99 years. 18-6-2007
Three are accused of running prostitution racket in Qatar Two Palestinians, a
man and a woman, have been accused along with a
Pakistani woman, 27, of running a prostitution racket in
Qatar. They have denied the charge in the court.
18-6-2007
Qatar: Importance of sex education stressed The need to introduce sex education as a
subject in the school curriculum in Qatar is the subject
of a lengthy investigative report published in the local
Arabic daily Arrayah. 8-6-2007
Iraqi women forced into prostitution Nineteen-year-old Nafisa Ridwan says she
was forced to work as a sex worker to feed her younger
brothers after her father died in an attack in the
capital, Baghdad. With her mother seriously sick with a
heart condition, she had to resort to prostitution after
failing to find other work.
28-5-2007
Iran: Pornography producers to get death penalty under new law The culture committee of
the Iranian parliament approved on Monday a bill
sentencing to death producers of 'pornography', videos
and films deemed vulgar by the country's censorship.
12-5-2007
Israel: Consul worker moonlighted in porn An employee at Israel's New York
consulate resigned recently after it came to light that
he had been moonlighting as a star in pornographic
films. 12-5-2007
'Spring of Sex' grips Bahrain A
cultural festival featuring actors in skin-tight
clothing embracing suggestively has ignited a heated
debate on freedom of expression in Bahrain.
25-4-2007
Man acquitted of forcing woman into prostitution A hotel
receptionist has been cleared of charges of forcing into
prostitution a woman who came to work as a housemaid
before she died of AIDS.
24-3-2007
Israel recalls 'naked ambassador' Israel's leadership has been shaken by a
string of scandals Israel has recalled its ambassador to
El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart
from bondage gear. 16-3-2007
Hamas orders to destroy books of Palestinian tales over sexual content The Hamas-run
Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of
Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries and
destroyed, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo,
officials said Monday, in the most direct attempt by the
Islamic militants to impose their beliefs on Palestinian
society. 8-3-2007
Pederasty in the Muslim world The
practice of pederasty in the Muslim world seems to have
begun, according to surviving records, sometime during
the 800s and ended, at least as an open practice, in the
mid-19th century. 8-3-2007
Dubai: Schoolgirl 'agreed to sex' A
man is standing trial for kidnapping and raping a
10-year-old schoolgirl. The 31-year-old Iranian suspect,
N.F., denied at the Dubai Court of First Instance
yesterday that he kidnapped, molested or raped the Asian
schoolgirl in the Al Wasl area.
24-2-2007
US soldiers jailed for Iraq rape, murders A US soldier has been sentenced to 100
years in prison for the gang rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi
girl and the killing of her and her family.
24-2-2007
Arab societies: Sexual abuse of children mustn't be ignored Arab societies
generally tend to brush under the carpet incidents of
sexual harassment of children, particularly if the
delinquent is a close relative, says a visiting
psychiatrist. 24-2-2007
Abu Ghraib contractor pleads guilty to child porn possession A civilian
contractor who worked at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison
in Baghdad pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing child
pornography after he was discovered using the prison
computer network to access porn sites.
24-2-2007
Woman flees from captors and a life of prostitution A 31-year-old
woman recently escaped from her captors in Dubai before
being pushed into prostitution. The woman, from the
south Indian state of Kerala, who came to the UAE on
Saturday to work as a housemaid made her escape while
she was being taken by her captors to a flat located in
Hor Al Anz. 24-2-2007
Israeli airline El Al sued in sexual harassment case An employee of Israel's
national airline El Al filed a sexual harassment lawsuit
against the carrier, claiming her supervisor repeatedly
groped her and demanded that she have sex with him.
24-2-2007
Kiss debate divides Israel Some Israelis said it was an
overreaction to convict a former cabinet member of
sexual misconduct for forcibly kissing a female soldier.
Others thought it's about time a society that reveres
military-style machismo starts reining in its men.
4-2-2007
