A German court on Friday threw out sexual assault charges against an Algerian man stemming from New Year's Eve violence in Cologne after the victim said she could not identify the defendant.
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.
The government of North Rhine-Westphalia was under fire on Wednesday for an alleged attempt to remove the word “rape” from the first police reports about mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
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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.
A trio of teenage girls in northern Germany were sexually harassed by a large group of men in northern Germany on Thursday, echoing the events of New Year’s Eve in Cologne.
The first man found guilty in connection with the crime wave in Cologne on New Year’s Eve has been given a six-month suspended sentence and a €100 fine.
A group of women at an emergency shelter in Cologne have accused the security personnel there of spying on them naked and even trying to blackmail them into sex.
A town north of Cologne has cancelled one of its Carnival parades, citing fears of a repeat of the sexual assaults which took place in the Cathedral city over the New Year.
Migrants arriving in Germany from North Africa are disproportionately likely to commit crime, police figures show - but deporting them isn’t always straightforward.
Artist Milo Moiré took to the streets naked in 4C temperatures outside Cologne Cathedral on Friday in a bid to show women should not be molested under any circumstances.
Berlin-based journalist Musa Okwonga argues that in the wake of the Cologne attacks, it's the fact of sexual assaults against women - not the race of the attackers - that we should focus on.
Cologne police said on Thursday that they have identified 16 suspects in the wave of sexual assaults around the city's main train station on New Year's Eve.
A New Year's Eve police report from Cologne showing the full extent of the sexual assaults against women in and around the city's main train station appeared in German media on Thursday, causing fresh waves of consternation.
Germany's authorities and media have been tiptoeing around the issue of sexual violence committed by immigrants and refugees for too long - giving the far right ammunition in their battle against the mainstream, argues Jörg Luyken.
Men of ‘Arab background’ were likely responsible for sexual assaults on dozens of women in central Cologne over the New Year, police said on Monday - as a social media storm accused police and media of a cover-up.
A doctor in western Germany is accused of using cameras hidden in a chair and in pens to take invasive photos of female patients, as well as carrying out examinations "solely for sexual arousal".
Police finally have caught a man responsible for three rapes in northern Bavaria in 2008 after his DNA turned up at a break-in a different part of the country.
Two American men working at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany sexually assaulted a German teenager in 2013, a US district court jury ruled on Thursday.
A German doctor convicted of sexually abusing four female patients while working in Norway is now working full-time as a doctor in Germany, Norway's Dagbladet newspaper has reported.
The gang of teenagers who sexually assaulted younger boys at a holiday camp on the island of Ameland was larger than previously thought, with authorities announcing Thursday they were investigating 13 youths over the attacks.
