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Times: Oxford college silenced student who claimed she was raped

Updated: Mar 24

Lady Margaret Hall imposed a ‘blanket gagging clause’ when Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian, was principal









An Oxford college silenced a female undergraduate after she complained of being violently raped by another student in her university room.

Lady Margaret Hall, formerly a women-only college, warned the young woman in writing not to reveal anything about the alleged attack or its safeguarding arrangements on social networks or to the media.

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