Russia failed to protect a woman from repeated acts of violence by her former partner, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday, saying ...
MOSCOW: Russia failed to protect a woman from repeated acts of violence by her former partner, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday (Jul 9, saying her case showed that Moscow was not facing up to its domestic abuse problem.
In one such episode, she was forced to have an abortion after he punched her in the face and stomach when she was pregnant. In other incidents, the partner, whom she met in 2014, cut her car's brake hose and stole her identity papers, it said. The court in Strasbourg said Russia's police had interviewed the partner and carried out pre-investigation inquiries but not opened formal proceedings against him as it deemed that"no publicly prosecutable offence had been committed".Russian legislation does not define or mention domestic violence as a separate offence or aggravating element in other offences and there is no mechanism for imposing restraining or protection orders, the court said.
Each year, about 14,000 women die in Russia at the hands of husbands or other relatives, according to a 2010 United Nations report.
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