Spain acts to protect women

their chat group “the pack”, the five men who raped an 18-year-old woman in a doorway during the San Fermín festival in Pamplona in 2016. They even filmed their crime. But a court in Navarre found them guilty only of “sexual abuse”, a charge well below rape. The judges found that the victim had not physically resisted, and therefore the violence or threat that must accompany the crime was absent. An appeals court agreed. Only after an uproar were the men found guilty of rape by Spain’s supreme court. But the tumult did not subside, and the slogan “No means no” gave way to a new one: , “only yes is yes”. Now Spain’s parliament has passed a new law with that at its core: sex without clear consent in word or deed would count as the serious crime of sexual aggression or rape.