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Revenge porn is a criminal betrayal deserving criminal legislation, Scotland’s top lawyer has said in a move backing feminist campaigners.
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland voiced support for new laws targeting the distribution of sexual images without the subject’s consent — typically men seeking to humiliate their partner following a fight or break-up.
Campaigners with Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland have warned that such videos or photographs are increasingly being used to harass and intimidate women.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland