Gang-rape video shocks Brazil
Brazilian police on Friday were investigating the gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl whose attackers boasted about it by posting an online video that has horrified the country.
Online social networks erupted with outrage over the video posted on Wednesday featuring the girl naked on a bed and the apparent rapists bragging that she had been raped by more than 30 men.
They are suspected of assaulting her on May 21 in Rio de Janeiro, a city stricken by violent crime and which will host the Olympic Games in August.
The authorities have promised to bring the men to justice.
"Those who committed this heinous crime will be found, will be imprisoned and condemned," Justice Minister Alexandre de Morais told a news conference in Rio Friday night.
Police have identified four of the men suspected of taking a "direct or indirect" part in the rape or the posting of the video, Rio police chief Fernando Veloso told reporters.
Brazil's acting president Michel Temer and other senior figures reacted with outrage. Top officials were meeting to discuss new measures to stop violence against women, Temer said.
The UN women's rights agency condemned the case along with another recent alleged gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl in the northeastern state of Piaui.
Brazilian police recorded a sexual assault in the country every 11 minutes in 2014, the Brazilian non-governmental organization Public Safety Forum said in a study, estimating that half a million such assaults take place overall each year.
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