INDIA

Mumbai’s top court on Thursday commuted the death sentences of three men convicted in a rape case that heightened public outrage over women’s safety in India. The assault in 2013 followed another high-profile gang-rape case the previous year that left a woman dead in New Delhi, sparking nationwide protests resulting in tougher anti-rape laws. The three men in Mumbai, along with two accomplices, trapped and repeatedly raped a 22-year-old photojournalist while she was on assignment at an abandoned factory compound. The attack outraged residents of Mumbai, a metropolis considered far safer for women than New Delhi, sparking protests in the city and uproar in the national parliament. Mumbai police arrested all five within a week of the incident. It prompted a 19-year-old telephone operator to come forward and accuse the trio of also raping her a month earlier, along with two different accomplices.