Spain's Congress passes Bill qualifying all non-consensual sex as rape

MADRID - Spain's Lower House of Parliament on Thursday passed a Bill that qualifies all non-consensual sex as rape in response to social outrage after the so-called Wolf Pack case gave momentum to the women's rights movement in the country four years ago.

"The 'only yes is yes' and 'sister I do believe you' finally turn into a law," Equality Minister Irene Montero told lawmakers in Congress."From now on, Spain is a freer and safer country for all women." Combating gender violence has been high on the minority leftist government's agenda since the"Wolf Pack" case, in which five men referring to themselves by that name were jailed for the lesser crime of sexual abuse in 2018 after gang-raping a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016.

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