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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 8 January 2020

India sets 2012 gang rape convicts' executions for Jan. 22

Associated Press cases often languish for
NEW DELHI (AP) — A death years. Four defendants
warrant was issued Tuesday were sentenced to death.
for the four men convicted Another hanged himself in
in the 2012 gang rape and prison before his trial be-
murder of a young woman gan, though his family in-
on a New Delhi bus that sists he was killed. The sixth
galvanized protests across assailant was a minor at the
India and brought global time of the December 2012
attention to the country's attack and was sentenced
sexual violence epidemic. to three years in a reform
A New Delhi court sched- home.
uled the hangings for Jan. Swati Maliwal, the chair of
22, the Press Trust of India the Delhi Commission for
news agency reported. Women, applauded Tues-
The warrant has been an- day's court announcement
ticipated since India's Su- on Twitter.
preme Court rejected one "I salute her mother who
of the men's final review has fought for so long," she
pleas last month. India's tweeted. "It is a victory for
president can still inter- all the fearless people of
cede, but that is not ex- this country. This is the time
pected to happen. Asha Devi, mother of the victim of the fatal 2012 gang rape on a moving bus, speaks to the media to punish every rapist in the
The victim, a 23-year- as she leaves a court in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. country so that a strong
old physiotherapy stu- Associated Press message is sent out."
dent whom Indian media The scheduled executions
dubbed "Nirbhaya," or friend from a movie theater woman and used the bar and the woman died two come amid a revived de-
"Fearless," because Indian when six men lured them to inflict massive internal in- weeks later. bate over sexual violence
law prohibits rape victims onto a bus. With no one else juries to her. The assailants were tried in India after several head-
from being identified, was in sight, they beat the man The pair were dumped relatively quickly in a coun- line-grabbing cases in re-
heading home with a male with a metal bar, raped the naked on the roadside, try where sexual assault cent months. q

Hong Kong to add mystery illness to reportable diseases

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong han, in central Hubei prov- visits to Wuhan. It is not The regulation enables the have to report suspected
Kong's health chief said ince. As of Sunday, seven clear whether they have government to take stron- cases as well as carry out
Tuesday that a respiratory were in critical condition, the same illness as the Wu- ger measures against the appropriate investigations
illness whose cause remains while the rest were stable. han patients. spread of certain diseases, and follow-ups to the Cen-
unknown will be added to Municipal authorities have Speaking at a news confer- such as tuberculosis and ter for Health Protection
an official list of diseases ruled out SARS, the severe ence, the health chief, So- chicken pox. Actions un- under the Department of
that medical practitioners acute respiratory syndrome phia Chan, said the "severe der the ordinance could Health," Chan said.
are required to report to that killed 700 people in respiratory disease associ- include enforcing quaran- The U.S. Consulate General
the government. 2002 and 2003. ated with a novel infectious tines or limiting the move- in Wuhan issued a health
The disease — an unidenti- In Hong Kong, a total of 15 agent" will be added to a ment of people who are alert Tuesday for the pneu-
fied form of viral pneumo- patients were being treat- list of reportable infectious suspected to have infec- monia outbreak, warning
nia — has sent 59 people ed Sunday for symptoms diseases in Hong Kong's tions. travelers to Wuhan to avoid
to the hospital in the main- including fever and respira- Prevention and Control of "Under the amendment, animals, as well as animal
land Chinese city of Wu- tory infection after recent Disease Ordinance. medical practitioners will markets and products.q