The Norwegian Parliament approved a bill on Friday, according to which the definition of rape to contact without consent instead of the current definition aimed at violence, threats or abuse of a person in a vulnerable state will be changed. According to Reuters and AFP reports, TASR reports.
A proposal created according to a similar Swedish or Spanish legislation known as “Yes, yes it means yes, most of the Norwegian parliamentarians supported. In cases of contact without granting consent, the perpetrators could threaten up to six -year imprisonment.
Sexual acts without consent are considered rape already in Denmark or Greece. But they also modified their regulations Finland or Iceland. According to the Norwegian proposal will have to be the consent clearly expressed by verbally or gesture.
“Today, the law considers only rape (cases) in which there has been violence, threats, or if someone has used the vulnerability of a person incapable of being resistant,” The Minister of Justice Astri Aas-Hansen explained in April. “However, there may be another reason why a person cannot or fail to reject a sexual proposal,“She stressed. When the victim of a sexual attack is without movement or paralyzed by fear and is unable to put a delayr, writes AFP.
