Three teenage asylum seekers have received jail sentences in a high profile rape trial in Vienna. Two 18-year-olds were sentenced to six years in prison and a 16-year-old to five years.
Austrian police will distribute 6,000 pocket
alarms on New Year's Eve to help prevent incidents like the mass sex assaults
in neighbouring Germany a year ago, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
An Iraqi refugee has received a higher prison sentence of seven years for raping a boy at a swimming pool in Vienna - after an earlier sentence was overturned when his appeal team won the right to a retrial.
A man who raped a woman who was walking her dog in a park in Vienna has been arrested in Greece under an international warrant after police traced him using a DNA sample.
Five teenagers aged between 15 and 16 have been sentenced by a court in Graz for the rape and sexual abuse of a fellow school student, who was 15 at the time.
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has criticised Austria for acquitting an Iraqi refugee who raped a schoolboy - failing to realise that the man has not been acquitted, but had his sentence overturned due to procedural errors.
US rapper Freddie Gibbs, who is charged with the sexual abuse of a female fan in Austria, was released on bail from a Vienna prison on Thursday, court officials said.
Nearly 80 percent of people found guilty of sex offences in Austria last year were Austrian, figures from the government’s annual security report have shown.
A 13-year-old girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a foreigner at a swimming pool in Mistelbach, Lower Austria, appears to have made the whole thing up.
An Austrian swimming pool has temporarily banned all refugees after a 13-year-old girl was allegedly followed into a women’s changing room and sexually molested.
US rapper Freddie Gibbs' lawyer said
Tuesday that the musician "absolutely denies" rape allegations that saw him
arrested in France last week, adding he will fight extradition to Austria to
face the charges.
One of three teenagers arrested last week following an alleged gang rape attack on a 21-year-old student in Vienna has admitted to carrying out the rape.
Police have arrested a 22-year-old man in Vienna who allegedly tried to rape three women. They are now asking any other victims who believe they were attacked by the same man to come forward.
A 15-year-old girl has told police that she was gang raped in her school in Graz - and that several of her fellow students saw it happening and did nothing to stop it.
