Unbelievable: Russia moves to decriminalize domestic violence
Is it just me or does this sound a lot like Muslim countries?
Russia believes overwhelmingly that assaulting and beating the hell out of your family is a good thing and shouldn’t be illegal.
The country has already decriminalized assault and battery that does not lead to actual bodily harm.
A bill that seeks to downgrade domestic violence from a criminal to an administrative offense passed its first reading on Wednesday in the duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament.
A total of 368 lawmakers voted in favor of the bill, with one “no” and one abstention.
Under the proposed rule, the charge of “battery within the family,” currently a criminal offense, would become an administrative one, with a fine, community service or a brief prison term levied against perpetrators. Criminal charges would still be laid if the offense is committed two or more times in one year.
Yelena Mizulina, the conservative politician who also successfully pushed Russia’s “gay propaganda” rules, was behind the move. She claimed on Twitter that the change was necessary to bring domestic violence offenses into line with other battery charges. Russia decriminalized assault and battery that did not lead to actual bodily harm in 2016.
In a speech to the Duma Wednesday, Mizulina said: “In the traditional family culture in Russia, parent-child relationships are built on the authority of the parents’ power,” adding: “The laws should support that family tradition.”
“If you slap your mischievous kid, you’re threatened with up to two years [in prison]. But if your neighbor beats your child — everything ends with an administrative punishment,” Mizulina tweeted, adding: “How many more families will waste police resources, while the duma discusses [the proposed changes]? … there are 20 million families with children in the Russian Federation. All of them are in danger.”
A Change.org petition opposing the new law gathered over 174,000 signatures after it was launched Tuesday.
“Every 12 minutes in Russia someone beats a member of their family,” Petition founder Alena Popova said in the Change.org post.
http://www.politico.eu/article/domestic-violence-russia-decriminalize/
Violence in relationship is wrong. However, current laws of Domestic Violence are an absolute sham and are mostly used to gain an upper hand in divorce and used for other “political” reasons that have nothing to do with physical violence. And in fact the women who push this are themselves violent to women who feel violence is ok to women who have different views then they do. Just ask Erin Pizzey.
They (the domestic violence laws in their current twisted state) are supported by crooked lawyers, crooked cops, and, yes, crooked religious figures including terrorist supporting Imam’s.
In fact exhibit A is here is NJ. An Imam that Christie considers a moderate.
Imam Mohammad Qatanani. He is on the board of Wafa House. He helps abused women. And Wafa house holds the same position as all the other group that the blame is always the guy. But more troubling is this Imam claims he himself was tortured by Israel and has back pain. So his own claims of abuse are questionable so why should I not think he tells women to lie. Especially a guy who doesn’t support this Imam’s extremism. This makes it easier to recruit young men for suicide missions when they have no father in the home and they have no social role in this world. But to same this Hamas Imam Qatanani is a moderate who deserves protection because yes he supports our Domestic Abuse laws.
The fact is most people who are not famous can have their lives ruined based on these laws when they have not committed any physical violence at all but they were accused of it by their wife.
Famous people and athletes it is different that their wives aren’t going to just make a claim with no evidence because they would look foolish as their husband has the media as a bully pulpit but most don’t have this.