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Rape in India
Rape in India is a criminal offense defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, formerly IPC Section 375; police recorded 31,516 cases in 2022, with a 27.4% conviction rate.
Rape in Islamic law
Rape in Islamic law (ikrah ala al-zina) is coercive intercourse treated under zina doctrine. Key facts: hadd punishments, four-witness rule, Pakistan's 1979 Hudood Ordinance, 2006 Protection of Women Act, 2021 reforms.
Rape in Japan
Rape in Japan, now non-consensual sexual intercourse (不同意性交等), is a Penal Code offense redefined by 2017 and 2023 reforms; recognized cases rose from 1,655 in 2022 to 3,936 in 2024.
Rape in Pakistan
Rape in Pakistan is criminalized under Pakistan Penal Code Sections 375 and 376, reshaped by the 1979 Zina Ordinance, the 2006 Protection of Women Act, and 2016 and 2021 amendments, with special courts and a sex offenders register but under 3 percent conviction.
Rape in Sweden
Rape in Sweden (våldtäkt) is a sexual offence under Brottsbalken Chapter 6, defined since 1 July 2018 by lack of consent, with negligent rape added; Sweden's high reported rape statistics reflect broad legal definitions and recording practices.
Rape in the United States
Rape in the United States: state-defined criminal offense with no single national definition. Measured by NCVS, NISVS, YRBSS, and FBI UCR; 135,755 rapes reported in 2017; marital rape exemption fully abolished by 2005.
Rape kit
Rape kit (sexual assault kit): standardized evidence collection package used in medical forensic exams of sexual assault survivors; DNA testing identifies offenders and serial rapists; origins in 1970s Chicago Vitullo kit; large US testing backlog.
Rape of males
Rape of males: non-consensual penetration of men and boys, including being made to penetrate. Covers prevalence (CDC: 1 in 31 men), male rape myths, disclosure barriers, psychological impact, and gender-specific rape laws.
Rape of Queena Vuong
Queena Vuong (Queena Phu), 18, was raped and beaten April 24, 2008 outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library, Valrico, Florida, by Kendrick Morris, 16, leaving her blind and paralyzed; Morris was resentenced to life in prison in 2017.
Rape pornography
Rape pornography depicts rape or non-consensual sexual activity, usually simulated. Covered by UK extreme pornography law (possession offence extended 2015; CPS 2019 guideline excluded consenting-adult material); effects research shows weak, contested associations.
Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), Polish-Jewish lawyer, coined the word 'genocide' in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe and drove adoption of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
Raphael Rowe
Raphael Rowe is a British journalist who spent about ten years in prison as one of the wrongly convicted M25 Three before joining the BBC and hosting Netflix's Inside the World's Toughest Prisons.
Rat torture
Rat torture, also called the rat trap method, is torture in which a rat is trapped against a victim's body, usually the abdomen, and heated so it bites through. Poorly documented in medieval records; known mainly from early modern accounts, Mirbeau's Torture Garden, and Freud's Rat Man case.
Ratification
Ratification is the international act by which a state consents to be bound by a treaty under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; distinct from signature and accession, and shaped by domestic constitutional approval rules.
Ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon
Ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon: approval by all 27 EU member states of the treaty signed 13 December 2007, via parliaments and two Irish referendums (2008 rejected 53.4% no; 2009 passed 67.1%), entering into force 1 December 2009.
Ratko Mladić
Ratko Mladić, 'Butcher of Bosnia', Bosnian Serb VRS Main Staff commander (1992-1995) during the Sarajevo siege and Srebrenica genocide; convicted by the ICTY in 2017, life sentence upheld 2021, died in The Hague 27 August 2026.
Raúl Labrador
Raúl R. Labrador is an American Republican politician and attorney serving as Idaho's attorney general, elected in 2022 after representing Idaho's 1st district in Congress from 2011 to 2019.
Raúl M. Arias-Marxuach
Raúl Manuel Arias-Marxuach, born 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a United States district judge appointed by President Trump in 2019 and chief judge since 2021.
Raúl Torrez
Raúl Torrez is an American attorney and Democrat serving as Attorney General of New Mexico since 2023, after serving as Bernalillo County District Attorney from 2017 to 2022.
Ravi Pujari (ರವಿ ಪುಜಾರಿ)
Ravi Pujari (ರವಿ ಪುಜಾರಿ), Raviprakash Sulya Pujari, Indian underworld gangster from Udupi, Karnataka; extradited from Senegal in 2020 as Anthony Fernandes; faces 200+ extortion and murder cases under IPC and MCOCA.
Ravi Shankar Prasad (रवि शंकर प्रसाद)
Ravi Shankar Prasad (रवि शंकर प्रसाद), born 1954 in Patna, is a BJP leader, Supreme Court Senior Advocate, and Patna Sahib MP who served as Union minister for Law and Justice, Communications, and Electronics and IT from 2014 to 2021 and championed Digital India.
Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge
Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge (born 1966), Indian judge; 45th Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court sworn in 9 September 2026; formerly Acting Chief Justice and judge of the Bombay High Court from 2013.
Ray and Faye Copeland
Ray and Faye Copeland, also Faye Della Copeland, were a Mooresville, Missouri farm couple convicted of murdering five transient farmhands in a 1986–1989 bad-check cattle scheme; they became the oldest US couple sentenced to death, and Ray died on death row in 1993 while Faye's sentence was commuted and she was paroled in 2002.
Ray Ferritto
Ray Ferritto, Erie, Pennsylvania mobster also active in Los Angeles, killed Danny Greene with a car bomb in Lyndhurst, Ohio, on October 6, 1977, then became a government witness whose testimony helped topple the Cleveland Mafia.
Ray Gricar
Ray Frank Gricar, Centre County, Pennsylvania district attorney for 20 years, vanished April 15, 2005; car found in Lewisburg, laptop in Susquehanna River without hard drive; declared legally dead 2011, case unsolved.
Ray Lamar Johnston
Ray Lamar Johnston, Florida death row inmate convicted of the 1997 murder of Leanne Coryell and of Janice Nugent; distinct from Lamar Johnson, the exonerated St. Louis man, and other namesakes.
Rayful Edmond
Rayful Edmond III (1964-2024), D.C.'s biggest crack cocaine kingpin of the late 1980s, ran a 1,700-pound-a-month trafficking operation, dealt from prison, became a federal informant, and died at 60 before his planned release.
Raymond A. Jackson
Raymond Alvin Jackson, born 1949 in Sussex, Virginia, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, appointed by President Clinton in 1993.
Raymond C. Clevenger III
Raymond C. Clevenger III is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the Lonely Hearts Killers, met via a lonely hearts club in 1947, swindled and murdered women including Janet Fay and Delphine Downing, were convicted in 1949, and executed at Sing Sing on March 8, 1951.