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Russian women living in fear as convicted murderers freed to fight for Wagner return

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 August, 2023 - 05:00

Concern that convicts re-entering society after stints in Ukraine will bring ‘wave of murder, rape and domestic violence’

The 2020 murder of Vera Pekhteleva, by her ex-boyfriend, was so gruesome that even in Russia, where violence against women often goes under the radar, it caused a media outcry.

Vladislav Kanyus spent hours torturing Pekhteleva before she died; neighbours repeatedly called police to report horrifying screams coming from the neighbouring apartment, but the police did not show up. At trial, it emerged there had been 111 injuries on Pekhteleva’s body.

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‘I got a brain injury and a life sentence’: the hidden legacy of male violence against women

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 2 April, 2023 - 06:00

The effects of head trauma on athletes are well documented. Finally, a UK study is examining the long-term brain health of females abused by their partner

The violence began long before Freya Doe* married at 18 – and it quickly escalated. “It was what I thought love was,” she says, speaking on Zoom from her home in the US. On one occasion, her husband punched her in the face, threw her off a porch, and repeatedly slammed her head on the ground. He threatened her with one of the several guns he owned then strangled her until she lost consciousness. When she came to, he was talking on the phone, saying: “I finally did it. I finally killed the bitch.”

Blood vessels in her eyes had burst. She was in hospital for a week. Twenty-two X-rays were taken of her head, neck, back and chest. “I was told the migraines would go away. They didn’t,” she says.

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Domestic violence hotline calls will soon be invisible on your family phone plan

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 17 February, 2023 - 19:39 · 1 minute

Domestic violence hotline calls will soon be invisible on your family phone plan

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Today, the Federal Communications Commission proposed rules to implement the Safe Connections Act , which President Joe Biden signed into law last December . Advocates consider the law a landmark move to stop tech abuse. Under the law, mobile service providers are required to help survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence access resources and maintain critical lines of communication with friends, family, and support organizations.

Under the proposed rules, mobile service providers are required to separate a survivor’s line from a shared or family plan within two business days. Service providers must also “omit records of calls or text messages to certain hotlines from consumer-facing call and text message logs,” so that abusers cannot see when survivors are seeking help. Additionally, the FCC plans to launch a “Lifeline” program, providing emergency communications support for up to six months for survivors who can’t afford to pay for mobile services.

“These proposed rules would help survivors obtain separate service lines from shared accounts that include their abusers, protect the privacy of calls made by survivors to domestic abuse hotlines, and provide support for survivors who suffer from financial hardship through our affordability programs,” the FCC’s announcement said.

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Seven Network host will fight domestic violence charge: Lawyer

pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / TheNewDaily · Thursday, 4 February, 2021 - 00:52 · 1 minute

Seven Network presenter and former White Ribbon chairman Andrew O’Keefe was “not the aggressor” in an alleged domestic assault and will fight the charge against him, his lawyer says.

Police will allege the former Weekend Sunrise host assaulted his partner, haematologist Orly Lavee, at an apartment in Randwick in Sydney’s east on Sunday.

O’Keefe did not appear in Waverley Local Court on Thursday when a magistrate adjourned his case.

Outside court, his lawyer Claudette Chua said O’Keefe would fight the charge.

“I have had an opportunity to review the facts of the matter and I will say this: Mr O’Keefe was certainly not the aggressor in the situation and Dr Lavee will have a lot to answer for,” Ms Chua said.

O’Keefe’s lawyer, Claudette Chua, talks to journalists outside court. Photo: Getty

Ms Chua said she sought an adjournment because O’Keefe had been “unable to give full instructions on such short notice”.

Police say the assault occurred between 11-11.30pm on January 30. O’Keefe was arrested on a nearby street about 3.30am.

He was taken to Maroubra police station and charged.

O’Keefe, a former lawyer and son of former NSW Supreme Court judge Barry O’Keefe, was a founding member of the domestic violence charity, the White Ribbon Foundation, where he served as chairman in 2017. The organisation went into liquidation in 2019.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for his service to television and charity work.

O’Keefe has been granted conditional bail. The case will next be heard on February 18.

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