A 25-year-old man confessed on Wednesday to the rape of a female student inside a bathroom at the prestigious Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. But police say he may have also been involved in another attempted rape.
On Wednesday the trial started of a man who allegedly lured a woman into his car before holding her captive for weeks and forcing her into prostitution. But a big question mark surrounds whether he will be convicted.
The woman accused with her boyfriend of raping and killing a Chinese student has broken her silence, speaking out against her partner - who is the son of police officers in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt.
The German government pleaded for calm on Monday after the arrest of a teenage Afghan asylum seeker for the alleged rape and murder of a German student triggered fresh criticism of the country's liberal refugee policy.
A teenage Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested on suspicion of the rape and murder of a 19-year-old female student in Germany, police and prosecutors said Saturday.
A German couple went on trial on Friday accused of brutally raping and killing a Chinese student in eastern Germany, in a crime that caused outrage in both countries.
The former head of an emergency refugee shelter is on trial this week in Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, accused of raping a female asylum seeker several times.
Only weeks after the body of a 19-year-old woman was found in a river in the wealthy southern city of Freiburg, another woman's body has been found. Both had been raped before their deaths, police say.
Police arrested seven asylum seekers in raids on refugee shelters on Thursday on suspicion the men repeatedly raped an Iranian teenager and filmed the sexual assault.
A 14-year-old girl was gang-raped and left partially clothed and unconscious in freezing temperatures. Now prosecutors are appealing the sentences for the young men found guilty, most of whom will not set foot in jail.
She reported she was raped by two men who also filmed as she said "stop" and "no". Now Gina-Lisa Lohfink has been found guilty again of false accusations in one of the most controversial sexual assault cases in Germany.
An 18-year-old who said she was raped at Cologne train station over the New Year reportedly discovered she was pregnant in the days that followed the attack.
The German parliament unanimously voted to pass a new law Thursday that broadens the definition of sex crimes and making it easier to deport foreign nationals who commit them.
A high-ranking police officer has alleged that his seniors tried to strike the word rape from an internal police report after the mass sexual assaults in Cologne over New Year.
Germany has long lagged behind other advanced nations when it comes to laws on rape. As parliament discusses a new law, women are using increased public attention to the problem to demand real change.
Currently, rape victims in Germany must demonstrate that they not only verbally declined sex, but also physically resisted. On Wednesday, the government took a big step to change that.
Protests are being organized in cities across Germany – including Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich – against meetings by followers of pickup artist Roosh V, who has argued for legalizing rape.
A young girl at the centre of cover-up allegations by Moscow against Berlin spent the night of her alleged rape at a friend’s house, Berlin prosecutors have revealed.
Germany on Wednesday warned Russia against "exploiting" a murky case involving the alleged rape of a German-Russian teenager in Berlin after Moscow hinted at an official cover-up.
