{"id":1031560,"date":"2021-11-19T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031560"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:28:47","slug":"u-s-increases-travel-warning-for-india-over-mass-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-increases-travel-warning-for-india-over-mass-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Increases Travel Warning for India over Mass Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-increases-travel-warning-for-india-over-mass-rape%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031560&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for India on Monday warning Americans to exercise \u201cincreased caution\u201d when visiting the country in part due to a rising risk of violent crime including \u201crape,\u201d the Press Trust of India (PTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/do-not-travel-to-india-pak-border-exercise-caution-due-to-crime-and-terrorism-us-updates-travel-advisory-to-citizens-2612650\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndian authorities report rape is one of the fastest growing crimes in India. Violent crime, such as sexual assault, has occurred at tourist sites and in other locations,\u201d the U.S. State Department wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/traveladvisories\/traveladvisories\/india-travel-advisory.html\">notice<\/a> dated November 15.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The State Department published the bulletin to announce it had increased its alert system for India to a \u201clevel 2,\u201d which advises travelers to \u201cexercise increased caution.\u201d A nation with a \u201clevel 1\u201d State Department status indicates visitors may \u201cexercise normal precautions\u201d while in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first time that the US has highlighted sexual assault as a concern in its travel advisories for India,\u201d the Print, an Indian online newspaper,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/diplomacy\/us-travel-advisory-flags-rape-in-india-asks-american-visitors-to-exercise-increased-caution\/767463\/\">noted<\/a> on November 17. \u201cIt was highlighted earlier in 2018 and 2019, when the US had asked women travellers to exercise caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A domestic Indian tourist was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2020\/feb\/07\/four-held-for-raping-woman-visiting-tourist-spot-in-jharkhand-2100407.html\">gang-raped<\/a> by a group of men in February 2020 shortly after visiting a Himalayan mountain village in northern India\u2019s Uttarakhand state. The 24-year-old woman was departing a local tourist attraction in Ramgarh district when a group of four men began to follow her. The young woman was not alone at the time of the incident, as she was accompanied by her uncle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The group of strange men physically attacked the woman\u2019s uncle and tied him to a tree.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18820842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234444868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18820842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234444868-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Activists of Student Federation of India (SFI) hold placards during a protest against the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, in New Delhi on August 4, 2021. (PRAKASH SINGH\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The assailants then dragged the woman to a nearby forest where they took turns raping her, Ramgarh Superintendent of Police Prabhat Kumar told reporters at a press conference shortly after the crime.<\/p>\n<p>A British female tourist was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/21\/asia\/india-rape-uk-intl\/index.html\">raped<\/a> in the southwestern Indian state of Goa in December 2018 while \u201cwalking back to her hotel,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took her into the fields and raped her and then he took her bags with him,\u201d Rajendra Dessai, a police officer at the Canacona police station in southern Goa, told the news outlet at the time, referring to the unidentified assailant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Goa is known both within India and worldwide for its luxurious Arabian Sea coastline. The state\u2019s lush beaches attract hundreds of thousands of tourists to Goa each year. Unfortunately, the state also documents a high number of tourist rapes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18820858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1228989977.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18820858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1228989977-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A political activist holds a placard during a protest to condemn the alleged gang-rape and murder of a teenaged woman in Bool Garhi village at Hathras in Uttar Pradesh state, on the eve of International Day of the Girl Child in Mumbai on October 10, 2020. ( INDRANIL MUKHERJEE\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cGoa\u2019s reputation has been repeatedly marred by incidents of sexual assault,\u201d CNN noted in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year [in 2017], another British national was raped and killed near Deobagh Beach in Canacona,\u201d the news outlet recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2008, British teenager Scarlett Keeling was raped and murdered in Goa. Two men charged with committing the crime were acquitted in 2016,\u201d CNN noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for India on Monday warning Americans to exercise \u201cincreased caution\u201d when visiting the country in part due to a rising risk of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}