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    Le chef de l’Etat a entendu un gendarme refuser son assistance à une femme en détresse qui venait de porter plainte pour menaces contre son mari.

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    South Korea bans men with history of abuse from marrying foreign women

    Legal amendment brought in after footage of man beating his Vietnamese wife sparked outcry

    Kate Lamb

    Fri 11 Oct 2019 03.56 BST
    Last modified on Fri 11 Oct 2019 04.00 BST
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    South Korea is to enact legislation that will ban men with a history of domestic violence from marrying foreign women, the justice ministry has confirmed.

    The ministry said the change was prompted by national outcry over footage that emerged in July showing a 36-year-old South Korean man physically and verbally assaulting his Vietnamese wife in front of their young child.

    About 6,000 Vietnamese women marry men in South Korea every year, overtaking China as the country sending the largest number of foreign brides to South Korea, according to the South Korean embassy in Hanoi.

    The amendment will prohibit South Korean men from inviting foreign women to the country for the purpose of marriage if they have a criminal record of domestic violence, irrespective of when that occurred.
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    Anyone sentenced to a sexual crime against a child within the past 10 years, or who has received a jail term in the same time, will also be subject to the newly amended law.

    The new amendment to the country’s immigration control laws will take effect in October next year, the ministry said in a legislative note published on Thursday.

    Video of the July incident was posted on social media and caused widespread public outrage, highlighting the vulnerable position of foreign women who marry abusive spouses.

    In 2018 a study by the National Human Rights Commission found that of 920 foreign wives in South Korea, 42% had suffered domestic violence, while 68% had experienced unwanted sexual advances.

    Footage of the assault, which occurred in the south-western county of Yeongam, shows the man slapping and kicking his wife and then repeatedly punching her in the head in front of their young child. “Didn’t I tell you that you are not in Vietnam,” he shouts.

    Later the Vietnamese woman is seen slumped in the corner of her home as her two-year-old son cries next to her.

    In interviews with police the husband said he was drunk at the time and assaulted his wife because “she did not speak fluent Korean”.

    Following the assault the victim fled to a women’s shelter with her son and treated for a fractured rib.

    Activists say that while a high proportion of migrant wives experience abuse, few report their cases to the police.

    South Korea’s justice ministry said the legal revision to the country’s immigration control law was intended to prevent domestic violence from occurring and protect the rights of migrant spouses.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/south-korea-bans-men-with-history-of-abuse-from-marrying-foreign-women

    • Bravo à @mad_meg pour le N°800000 :)
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      Elle vient de porter plainte pour violences, à nouveau, et veut passer récupérer ses affaires chez elle mais a peur de son mari. Ce moment-là est souvent celui qui exacerbe les violences du mari.
      « Vous êtes à la gendarmerie ? Vous êtes en danger, votre mari est au domicile. Les gendarmes peuvent vous accompagner », la rassure Elena. Mais non, les gendarmes refusent catégoriquement, se désole la victime.

      C’est assez courant ce refus de #non_assistance à femme en danger. Je peux témoigner de la même situation de refus au commissariat central de Toulouse. J’avais relaté sur seenthis (en Juillet 2017) avoir soutenu une inconnue qui venait d’être frappé par son compagnon à aller porter plainte. Elle a demandé devant moi de l’aide pour aller récupérer ses affaires. La réponse a été « Retournez chez vous et si ça se passe mal, vous n’avez qu’à nous appeler. » Elle m’a regardé l’air désemparé : « tu vois je te l’avais dit, ils ne feront rien ». Son agresseur était chez elle, et elle était sans portable pour joindre des proches chez qui elle espérait se réfugier.