Judicial decision that considered an 11-minute rape “short” sparks protests in Switzerland

He movement feminist Swiss began organizing protests against a recent decision by the country’s Supreme Court that reduced the prison sentence of a rapist, claiming that sexual assaultof 11 minutes, it was “short-lived”, local newspaper Tribune de Genève reported today.

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The decision, handed down on November 22nd and which confirms a similar decision from the courts of Basel In 2021, it began to make headlines inside and outside the Central European country, where feminist organizations began to mobilize against it, the newspaper states. Geneva.

This Monday, in one of these mobilizations, around 150 women gathered at the center of Geneva with the aim of making as much noise as possible banging pots and pans, shouting and applauding for 11 minutes, in memory of the adjudicated sexual assaultcommitted against a woman in Basel in February 2020.

“ANDThose 11 minutes were an eternity for the victimIt is a shame to measure the severity of such aggression according to its duration”local politics guaranteed during the protest Francoise Nyffelerof movement to the left Ensemble à Gauche.

In the protests feminist movements demand the Swiss justice that respects the Istanbul Conventionratified by the country in 2017 and which aims to improve women’s protection against violence.

Source: Elcomercio

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