Violence against men

Up to 5 years in prison for psychological harassment and persecution in the context of domestic violence. This includes amendments to the Penal Code that will be discussed in National Assembly today, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

Harassment outside the family will be punished by imprisonment for up to one year or probation.

The words "violence" and "domestic" should not be used in the same sentence, Denmark's Ambassador Soren Jensen Monday told a press conference that took place at the Police Academy in Bucharest whose topic was violence against women.

An Ankara court has for the first time in Turkey ruled that a suspect of domestic violence be subject to almost all measures indicated in the law to stop him from inflicting violence on his ex-wife.

A prosecutor in the Mediterranean province of Antalya has demanded the acquittal of a suspect in a sexual abuse case involving a nine-year-old girl, arguing that the girl did not "show reaction" during and after the harassment.

At the beginning of 2019, Sofia Municipality together with the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings will open a crisis centre for child victims, with a capacity for 10 children, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova said at a conference on human trafficking and cybercrime, Focus News Agency reports.

The government's programme identifies the fight against human trafficking and cybercrime as a priority, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov said at a conference on Trafficking in Human Beings and Cybercrime: Ties, Counteraction and Prevention, Focus News Agency reports. 

A Bulgarian rapper who was convicted of trafficking multiple women and a child into prostitution has announced his sudden departure from Bulgaria's Celebrity Big Brother following protests from women's rights campaigners.

A BULGARIAN man who was living in Llangollen has been made the subject of a sexual harm order after it was discovered he had raped a child in his native country.

The #MeToo movement fighting sexual misconduct had already claimed one of Hollywood's top movie moguls in Harvey Weinstein. Now it has done the same for Leslie Moonves, one of the television industry's most powerful executives.

A 43-year-old man from Sofia kidnapped, raped, robbed and abused three prostitutes from the Sunny Beach area. This was announced by the head of the Appellate Prosecutor's Office in Burgas, Lyubomir Petrov. The abuser committed the three crimes in late July and early August.