Outrage after Spain's "patriarchal" court verdict clears two men of rape because "it was not violent"
A court's verdict to clear two men of rape despite the victim begging them to stop has prompted outrage in Spain. The court in Lleida in north-eastern Spain jailed the uncle and nephew for four-and-a-half years for sexual abuse, rather than for rape.
This has led to a massive outcry and a similar verdict in a gang rape case this year has witnessed large demonstrations against "patriarchal" justice. Five men, who dubbed themselves 'the wolf pack', were cleared of raping a teenage woman during the San Fermín bull-running festival in Pamplona just eight months ago.
And now, another court in Spain has cleared two men of raping a woman by ruling that a man and his nephew sexually abused rather than raped the woman - because there was no violence involved.