India Blocks Controversial BBC Rape Documentary

Indian authorities have blocked the screening of a BBC documentary amid a massive outrage over a controversial interview with one of the rapists in the brutal gang rape that shook the country two years ago. But some say the solution does not lie in banning the film, but in changing a social mindset that devalues women. Saying that women who go out at night have only themselves to blame, Mukesh Singh -- one of the six men who raped a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in December 2012 --...

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