3 Men Arrested, Set To Appear Before Court For Gangraping Woman, Streaming It On Facebook Live

3 men have been placed in judicial custody after being arrested in connection with the gang-rape of a woman in Sweden. The event was reportedly live streamed on Facebook, and police were tipped off by members of the closed Facebook group where it was streamed.

????? #Sweden: One of three Middle Easterners laughs as they broadcasts gang rape live on Facebook. Scumbags!!! https://t.co/MBxGlMccdLpic.twitter.com/XI770cwn6P

¡ª Onlinemagazin (@OnlineMagazin) January 23, 2017

2 of the men, of Afghani origin, have been detained on suspicion of rape. The third, a Swedish citizen, was detained for failing to report a rape. "A woman is said to have been raped in an apartment. He is suspected of that," said the 20-year-old's lawyer, Christer S?derberg.

"He denies any criminal offence, and he has given in my opinion a perfectly coherent story about what happened. I cannot go into details, but he has told me in a way that is not contradicted by anything else," he told Swedish news agency TT.

Facebook has been asked for help to retrieve the video, Lead prosecutor Pontus Melander said

"Facebook has said that they want to cooperate, but they are based in the US so we need international legal aid, which I have requested," Mr Melander told TT.

Swedish daily tabloid Aftonbladet interviewed some of the members of the 60,000-strong group. They said the girl was "close to unconscious. A woman who saw the live stream thought it was "poorly-orchestrated joke". "Two guys pushing down a girl on the bed... I first thought it was a poorly-orchestrated joke. But it was not," 22-year-old Lovis said. She claims that 200 people were watching the video at one point, before the police showed up on the scene.

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