A.S.’s husband was mysteriously killed during training with the Iranian Air Force, and the Iranian government subsequently declared him to be a martyr. As the widow of a martyr, A.S. was required to submit to the rigid rules of the Bonyad-e Shahid Islamic society, a foundation which supported and supervised the families of martyrs. In accordance with the aims of Bonyad-e Shahid, a high-ranking leader forced A.S.
This Virginia law defines rape as sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, or causing a complaining witness to engage in sexual intercourse with any other person, regardless of the existence of a spousal relationship and such act is accomplished (i) against the complaining witness's will, by force, threat or intimidation of or against the complaining witness or another person; or (ii) through the use of the complaining witness's mental incapacity or physical helplessness; or (iii) with a child under age 13 as the victim.
A man was convicted of raping his estranged wife and breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. On appeal, he argued that under the common law, a husband could not be convicted of raping his wife. The Supreme Judicial Court rejected this “marital rape exemption,” holding that the revised rape statute, G.L. c.
Appellant appealed his indictment for aggravated rape, assault, and torture and acts of barbarism against his wife, arguing that marriage creates a presumption of consent to sexual relations between spouses. The Court found that such a presumption is not conclusive and that Section 332 of the Penal Code, which defines rape as "[a]ny act of sexual penetration, whatever its nature, committed against another person by violence, constraint, threat or surprise," does not exclude the possibility of rape within a marital relationship where there is a lack of consent.
The Brussels Court of Appeal recognized marital rape and found that the husband who used serious violence to coerce his wife into having sex against her wishes was guilty of the criminal offense of rape. Furthermore, this act was neither subject to bail nor to a defense of misunderstanding.
Following significant reforms introduced by the Criminal Justice Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences) Act 2023, sexual offences in the Northern Territory are now governed by Part VIA of the Criminal Code Act 1983. Consent is defined as a person’s free and voluntary agreement to sexual activity.
After threatening and assaulting the Victim (wife) with a deadly weapon, the Defendant (husband) had violent sexual intercourse with his wife after they had started using separate rooms due to consistent dispute.” The Supreme Court found that the term ‘female’ as the victim of rape as provided by Article 297 of the Criminal Act included the offender’s legally wedded wife and that the crime of rape was established when the husband had sexual intercourse with his wife by disabling or hindering resistance through violence or intimidation in a sustained marriage.
The Domestic Abuse Act (Scotland) of 2018 came into force on April 1, 2019. It modifies and expands upon portions of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act of 1995. The act expands the definition of domestic abuse to include psychological abuse and coercive and controlling behavior. It criminalizes both psychological and physical harm directed to a partner or an ex-partner.
Scotland’s domestic abuse legislation came into force on April 1, 2019. The statute defines domestic abuse broadly, including both psychological (“fear, alarm and distress”) and physical harm directed to a partner or an ex-partner. See Section 1. The statute defines a “partner” as a spouse or civil partner, a person with whom one lives as a spouse, or person with whom one is in an “intimate personal relationship.” Section 11.2. Abuse is “violent, threatening, or intimidating” behavior that may consist of controlling a victim’s daily activities, causing
The Domestic Violence Act (the “DVA”) serves to combat the prevalence of domestic violence in Grenada.
