The bill changes the Penal Execution Law to create measures that strengthen the protection of women who are victims of domestic and family violence against new threats or violence from convicted offenders or those in pretrial detention.
The bill changes the Penal Execution Law to create measures that strengthen the protection of women who are victims of domestic and family violence against new threats or violence from convicted offenders or those in pretrial detention. It also changes the Torture Crimes Law to include, as torture, repeatedly subjecting a woman to intense physical or mental suffering in this context.
Key points and official text
Key points
- Amends the Penal Execution Law (Law No. 7.210/1984) to protect women who are victims of domestic violence
- Focuses on repeated threats or violence by convicted offenders or those in pretrial detention
- Amends the Torture Crimes Law (Law No. 9.455/1997)
- Provides that repeatedly subjecting a woman to intense physical or mental suffering is torture
Official text (PL 2083/2022)
The official text is in Portuguese, as it was voted.
Altera a Lei nº 7.210, de 11 de julho de 1984 (Lei de Execução Penal), para estabelecer medidas destinadas a reforçar a proteção da mulher vítima de violência doméstica e familiar, especialmente contra a reiteração de ameaça ou de violência perpetrada por agressores condenados ou submetidos a prisão provisória; e a Lei nº 9.455, de 7 de abril de 1997 (Lei dos Crimes de Tortura), para prever como modalidade de tortura a submissão reiterada da mulher a intenso sofrimento físico ou mental, no contexto de violência doméstica e familiar.
How each deputy voted
Symbolic vote: the result was announced without recording each deputy's vote.
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