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Italy approves draft law targeting femicide with punishment of up to life in prison (apnews.com)

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The Italian government approved a draft law that for the first time introduces the legal definition of femicide in the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life imprisonment.

The move, announced on the eve of International Women’s Day on Saturday, aims at tackling a shocking string of killings and violence targeting women in Italy through strengthening measures against gender-based crimes like stalking and revenge porn.

The proposal, agreed on late Friday, still needs to go through parliament and must be approved by both chambers to become law.

“This is an extremely significant bill, which introduces the crime of femicide in our legal system as an autonomous crime, punishing it with life imprisonment,” said conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni, who strongly backed the initiative.

“It introduces aggravating circumstances and increases sentences for crimes including personal mistreatment, stalking, sexual violence and revenge porn,” she said in a statement.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does murder not already go up to life imprisonment in Italy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Seriously. This is fuckin' wild. Making stalking and revenge porn and so on illegal sounds great, sure. But the way it needs to be presented indicates that there was and still is a deeper problem than how the criminal code is structured.

"We hereby are making it illegal to kill, both people, and women."