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Petition against grass cutting punishment for Busia gang-rape hits 1 million

KENYA: More than a million people have signed an online petition demanding justice after three men accused of brutally gang-raping a girl in Kenya were ordered to cut grass as punishment.

The policemen who ordered the punishment should be disciplined for failing to investigate rape charges, the petition said. 

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