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Witnesses for Nun's Rape Case Threatened, Refuse to Testify

By | 2009-05-09T12:24:00-04:00 May 9th, 2009|Press Releases|

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 9, 2009) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that five prosecution witnesses gave compromised testimony in the case of the nun who was raped during the August pogrom against Christians in Orissa's Kandhamal district because they had been threatened with "dire consequences." The witnesses testified on April 22 in a special court.