{"id":17834,"date":"2024-04-29T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uit-ci.org\/?p=17834"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:57:38","slug":"metoo-new-york-court-of-appeals-overturns-ruling-against-rapist-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/metoo-new-york-court-of-appeals-overturns-ruling-against-rapist-weinstein\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"#MeToo: New York Court of Appeals overturns ruling against rapist Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By\u00a0<\/span><b>international Workers\u2019 Unity \u2013 Fourth\u00a0 International<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">27th April 2024. The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday 25 April overturned one of the sexual abuse convictions against film producer Harvey Weinstein.\u00a0 The overturned ruling is the one that sentenced him to 23 years in prison in March 2020.\u00a0 In any case, the mogul will remain in prison serving the 16-year sentence for another rape. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The argument used by the court to overturn the ruling is that there were errors in the 2020 court proceedings.\u00a0 A formality that Weinstein&#8217;s defence used in its appeal and which was accepted by four of the seven magistrates to overturn the ruling and start a new trial. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 23-year sentence for sexual abuse and rape was the result of a historic and long-awaited trial for the feminist movement.\u00a0 There he was tried on charges brought by two women but there were more than 90 women who publicly denounced him in 2017 in what is known as the #MeToo movement.\u00a0 A phenomenon that began in the United States but which has transcended borders, becoming a true rebellion against sexual violence. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the International Workers&#8217; Unity &#8211; Fourth International (IWU-FI) we repudiate the annulment of one of the historic rulings that put rapist Weinstein behind bars and denounce the patriarchal justice system that seeks to guarantee his impunity.\u00a0 The struggle against sexual violence is one of the most important milestones of the fourth feminist wave that has been sweeping the world for years and that has been leading large mobilisations against the patriarchal system that oppresses women and dissidents.\u00a0 From our socialist feminism we are part of these mobilisations and we struggle so that the anti-patriarchal struggle joins the anti-capitalist struggle in the fight for a society without oppression and exploitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>International Workers\u2019 Unity \u2013 Fourth International<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>27th April 2024<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0international Workers\u2019 Unity \u2013 Fourth\u00a0 International 27th April 2024. The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday 25 April overturned one of the sexual abuse convictions against film producer Harvey Weinstein.\u00a0 The overturned ruling is the one that sentenced him to 23 years in prison in March 2020.\u00a0 In any case, the mogul will remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17835,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions\/17835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}