Man fined US$8 for sexual assault in Vietnam, sparking outrage
A Vietnamese woman sitting on a motorbike, looking back. Surveys on gender violence show that many Vietnamese women experience sexual harassment in public. – AFP pic, March 20, 2019.
VIETNAMESE citizens were outraged after a man was fined US$8 for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator, a rare public outburst in a country where sexual assault is scarcely spoken about openly. The #MeToo movement never took off in Vietnam, a conservative communist country where gender-based violence is widespread but remains a taboo topic.
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