{"id":3958,"date":"2026-10-14T17:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:34:26","slug":"russell-brand-faces-seven-sexual-offence-charges-as-trial-opens-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/russell-brand-faces-seven-sexual-offence-charges-as-trial-opens-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand Faces Seven Sexual-Offence Charges as Trial Opens in London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">London, United Kingdom:Comedian and actor Russell Brand appeared at Southwark Crown Court for a trial involving allegations made by six women concerning incidents between 1999 and 2009. He faces three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. Prosecutors presented their case at the opening of the trial. Brand denies all the accusations and maintains that he has never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity. The allegations have not yet been determined by the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Action to Be Taken:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sexual-violence allegations should be investigated fairly, with survivors treated respectfully and protected from intimidation. Courts should assess the evidence impartially, while reporting should distinguish allegations from established findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, United Kingdom:Comedian and actor Russell Brand appeared at Southwark Crown Court for a trial involving allegations made by six women concerning incidents between 1999 and 2009. He faces three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. Prosecutors presented their case at the opening of the trial. Brand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}