Judge raises ire of women groups for perpetuating rape myth

comments     Arfaeza A Aziz     Published     Updated

Women organisations are outraged by the remarks made by an Ampang Sessions Court judge yesterday when he freed a police constable from the charge of raping two foreign women in a police lock-up last February.

All Women's Action Society, Sisters In Islam, Women's Aid Organisation and Women's Candidacy Initiative today said the judge's remarks on the conduct of the women were insensitive and depicted as if he did not understand the dynamics of rape or rape survivors.

In a joint press statement, they said that they are deeply disturbed by the grounds given by judge Mohamed Saman Mohd Ramli for the acquittal of Razali Pilen from the charges allegedly committed in a room at the Hulu Langat district police station in Selangor on Feb 24, this year.

The judge had stated that he found the sexual acts between Razali and the Filipino and Indonesian illegal immigrants, aged 23 and 24 respectively, to be "voluntarily, just like between husband and wife".

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