{"id":182096,"date":"2021-05-27T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/may\/27\/echr-criticises-italian-court-for-referring-to-red-underwear-in-case"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:21:31","slug":"echr-criticises-italian-court-for-referring-to-red-underwear-in-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/27\/echr-criticises-italian-court-for-referring-to-red-underwear-in-rape-case\/","title":{"rendered":"ECHR criticises Italian court for referring to \u2018red underwear\u2019 in rape case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights court says language used was unjustifiable and orders \u20ac12,000 payment to woman<\/p><p>The European court of human rights has condemned an Italian court after it referred to a woman\u2019s red underwear and bisexuality as signs of her \u201cambivalent attitude towards sex\u201d when acquitting six men accused of gang rape.<\/p><p>The case dates back to 2008, when the woman, a student aged 22 at the time, claimed she had been raped by seven men in Florence.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/11\/men-acquitted-of-charges-because-victim-judged-too-masculine\">Italian protests over men cleared of rape because woman was 'too masculine'<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/may\/27\/echr-criticises-italian-court-for-referring-to-red-underwear-in-case\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/may\/27\/echr-criticises-italian-court-for-referring-to-red-underwear-in-case\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights court says language used was unjustifiable and orders \u20ac12,000 payment to womanThe European court of human rights has condemned an Italian court after it referred to a woman\u2019s red underwear and bisexuality as signs of her \u201cambivalent attitu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,2944,6,4835,640,22977,520,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182214,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182096\/revisions\/182214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}