updates

Jul 29, 2013 ∞

Twitter user arrested for threatening to rape and murder female activist

I wrote recently about my disappointment with Twitter’s response to a woman deluged with rape threats. Today, David Edwards of t The Raw Story reports that a man has been arrested in England for threats made against Caroline Criado-Perez.

Twitter said in a statement to Sky News :

[the] ability to report individual tweets for abuse is currently available on Twitter for iPhone and we plan to bring this functionality to other platforms, including Android and the web.

Good idea, let’s make that a priority.

Jul 22, 2013 ∞

Norwegian rape victim Marte Deborah Dalelv "pardoned" by UAE

Norwegian rape victim Marte Deborah Dalelv “pardoned” by UAE

I wrote yesterday about Ms. Dalelv’s 16-month sentence for sex outside marriage, among other absurd charges to levy against a victim of rape, in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. I’m happy to report that, according to Reuters, the 24-year-old has been “pardoned” and will be able to go back to Norway.

The fact that UAE called it a “pardon” is as unconscionable as the sentence itself, but freedom by any name is better than being jailed in the kind of nation that would punish a rape victim.