A protest in opposition to sexist sexual violence, in Pamplona, northern Spain. AP file

Madrid: Victims of rape in Spain can now demand their assailants to wear digital tracking units when they come out of jail.

The nation’s equality minister has ordered courts throughout Spain to settle for requests by ladies who need their attackers to wear tracking units to alert them if they are close by.

The orders particularly apply to those that have been launched prematurely from jail underneath a controversial reform of Spain’s sexual reforms, in accordance to Telegraph.

The digital tracking units, which are geared up with GPS providers, will be worn round one’s wrist or ankle.

Who will management the units?

The sufferer will even have a tool that may be paired to their assailant’s bands which can allow the previous to know if the ex-convict is round or has entered an “exclusion zone” which is about 500 metres away from the sufferer’s location.

The digital tracking units worn by criminals will be monitored by Spain’s safety forces who will obtain alerts if an offender enters the exclusion zone.

The centre will even get alerted in case the band is taken off or stops functioning. In such a case, the police will instantly dispatch a patrol automobile to the sufferer’s location.

The new scheme comes at a when round 100 sexual offenders have had their sentences lower quick in the wake of a brand new reform handed final yr referred to as the “only yes means yes” legislation.

The equality ministry additionally helps that the brand new scheme will enhance safety in opposition to ladies threatened by gender-based violence in Spain.

‘Yes means yes’ legislation

The “yes means yes” legislation was utilized final yr in response to a 2016 case the place 5 males, referred to as the “Wolf Pack”, raped an 18-year-old lady on the world-famous bull-running competition.

Under the brand new legislation, all non-consensual intercourse was began to be counted as rape as opposed to the earlier rule the place rape convictions might solely be secured if a prosecutor might show that violence and intimidation had been employed.

According to VOA News, Ana Bernal, a journalist who specialises in feminist points stated, “This law has left a legal loophole. There are many victims who are scared about what could happen because the people who abused them could be let out of prison earlier. They are worried about their safety.”

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