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“No signs of rape”: corroboration, resistance and the science of disbelief in the medico-legal jurisprudence of Bangladesh*

A major impediment to justice for rape in Bangladesh is the colonial rule of corroboration, which requires judges to verify the truthfulness of a rape complainant’s testimony with other evidence. Medical evidence is the most commonly sought mode of corroboration and can be used to contradict the com...

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Autor principal: Huda, Taqbir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9341365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35904564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2022.2096186