Indian women protest rapes, May 31, Uttar Pradesh
"A 14-year-old girl was raped on the orders of a village leader in northern India, police said, as a form of punishment against her brother. The girl's brother had been accused of trying to assault another woman. According to police, the rape victim says she was raped by the husband of the other woman, a punishment for the brother's alleged actions decided by the village of Swang's unelected headman. The accused rapist and the girl's brother were in police custody Friday and hadn't been charged, according to spokesman for the Jharkhand police. Police also arrested the village chief, and said the investigation is continuing...The case echoed a similar case that stirred a national outcry in January when a 20-year-old woman in the eastern state of West Bengal was allegedly gang-raped by a village chief and 12 other men as punishment for dating a man outside her community."