Women's rights defenders have protested outside an Italian court after it emerged that two men accused of rape were cleared by female judges because the alleged victim looked 'masculine'.
in central Italy, accusing the justice system of misogyny and a"witch hunt", according to video footage posted by Italian media.
The reasons behind the 2017 acquittal were only made public on Friday when the country's highest court of appeal ordered a retrial, according to the Cronoche Ancona Daily. The men, both Peruvians, had initially been convicted in 2016 of raping a Peruvian woman in 2015, but the Ancona appeals court threw out the charges, saying the woman's story was not believable.
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