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Two bad changes to two important laws were prevented - slaughter without consent will not be a separate crime, but the perpetrators will be tried for rape, and shelters will not be able to kill animals without the consent of a veterinarian
In two days, citizens and activists managed to prevent the adoption of two monstrous laws. Although by joint action and under great pressure, both legal solutions were changed or sent back for revision, the impression remains that the regime parties deliberately tried to impose incredibly harsh and undemocratic proposals, in order to divert the public's attention from struggles for student protests and blockades, especially in the period when students are overloaded with annual exams in just a month or two.
Also, to the ministers in To the Government of Serbia this withdrawal gave them the opportunity to say that they are supposedly ready to talk.
Prevented privileging of rapists
With the first one, the Ministry of Justice planned to amend the Criminal Code to bring sexual harassment without consent under a separate criminal offense, separate it from rape and threaten a significantly lower penalty for it.
Women's rights activists protested strongly.
"A promise without consent is rape, not a lesser crime," said Bobana Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Center during the introduction to the law. "This is not a way to bring the definition of rape in line with the Istanbul Convention. This is a way to privilege rapists."
After weeks of campaigning against this proposal, Justice Minister Nenad Vujic said that they have taken into account the objections that have come to them.
"Thus, we show that we follow the debate and that we respect certain objections. This solution was the initiative of women and organizations that deal with violence against women and the protection of women, and we adopted their arguments," he said.
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Animal cruelty law
Just a day before, the Law on Animal Welfare was sent back for revision, which, with amendments, provided for numerous monstrous measures of torturing and killing animals, both in asylums and outside them.
"The door is wide open for the uncontrolled killing of animals, in many cases without the opinion of a veterinarian," she said after the state came up with the bill for "Vreme", a professor at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade Vanja Bajović. "Thus, the draft Law expands the possibilities for killing animals."
According to the proposed solution, the animal could be killed not only to prevent the spread and control of the disease, but also to ensure the prevention and control of the disease, and for that even the opinion of a veterinarian was no longer required. This provision would give all shelters free rein to kill dogs housed there under the pretext of disease prevention and control, and without a veterinarian's opinion.
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