The trial of a staff sergeant on a rape accusation that started Thursday has highlighted a problem that appears to be on the rise in the German army - sexual assault of female soldiers.
Goethe University cancelled a speech by police union head Rainer Wendt last year after students accused him of supporting racial profiling. After a string of sexual assaults against students, Wendt says his stance has been vindicated.
As accusations of sexual misconduct against famous men swept through the media in the Anglophone world late last year, Germany stayed silent. That changed this month when one of the country’s most famous directors was accused of rape.
In wake of the global #MeToo campaign, recently launched to raise awareness of how widespread assault and harassment are, The Local spoke to people on the streets of Berlin to find out whether they had ever experienced sexual harassment before.
Linus Förster, a former MP for the Social Democrats (SPD) in the Bavarian state parliament was jailed on Friday for sexually assaulting several women and for the possession of child pornography.
Criminal statistics in Germany have shown that asylum seekers are suspects in rape and sexual assault cases at a rate higher than their representation in society as a whole. Experts discuss the problem.
In the first six months of 2017 the number of recorded sex crimes in Bavaria rose by 48 percent. The revelation that asylum seekers were often suspects has opened a difficult discussion in the southern state.
The Federal Labour Court was in no doubt that when a metal worker grabbed a colleague between the legs and told him “you’ve got big balls!” he had no sexual intent. But it still ruled that a dismissal for sexual assault was justified.
A 32-year-old Iraqi refugee was found guilty on Tuesday of the rape of two Chinese students at a university in western Germany. The initial arrest fired off a national debate about sexual violence by asylum seekers.
Police on Tuesday arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of belonging to terror group Isis, and of raping a woman as she attempted to flee an Isis-held area in Syria with her children, officials said.
A Moroccan man accused of raping a woman in a Hamburg club over the weekend was ordered to leave the country in April. But an administrative breakdown meant he stayed in the country.
City officials plan to have more than ten times the number of officers that they did last year on patrol for the upcoming New Year's Eve celebration, hoping to prevent the spate of crimes committed last year.
Officials said on Tuesday that they had arrested a 31-year-old man living in a refugee home after two Chinese students reported being sexually assaulted in recent months near Bochum University.
German public broadcaster ARD came under fire on Tuesday, accused of having ignored a rape-murder case in which an Afghan refugee is the top suspect for fear of fueling anti-migrant sentiment.
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.
