https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A long-awaited new law in Denmark will reform sexual assault laws to make consent rather than violence the basis for determining rape. https://www.thelocal.dk/20201217/danish-parliament-passes-rape-law-requiring-sexual-consent Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:15:19 +0100 danish-parliament-passes-rape-law-requiring-sexual-consent The Danish government on Tuesday announced plans to reform sexual violence laws to make consent rather than violence the basis for determining rape. https://www.thelocal.dk/20200902/denmark-plans-rape-law-requiring-sexual-consent Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:08:19 +0200 denmark-plans-rape-law-requiring-sexual-consent Support is gathering in Denmark’s parliament for a law which would define sex without explicit consent as rape. https://www.thelocal.dk/20190312/danish-conservative-parties-support-law-on-consent-before-sex Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:30:00 +0100 danish-conservative-parties-support-law-on-consent-before-sex The Liberal Party, the senior partner in Denmark’s coalition government, says the burden of proof should remain with the victim in rape trials. https://www.thelocal.dk/20180524/denmarks-liberal-party-not-in-favour-of-change-of-practice-in-rape-cases Thu, 24 May 2018 15:51:43 +0200 denmarks-liberal-party-not-in-favour-of-change-of-practice-in-rape-cases A 19-year-old Danish man is set to be deported from Australia after pleading guilty to the rape of a 21-year-old British woman in October. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170726/danish-backpacker-deported-from-australia-after-rape-conviction Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:06:58 +0200 danish-backpacker-deported-from-australia-after-rape-conviction A record 744 rapes were reported in Denmark last year, doubling the number of reports in 2014 according to figures from Statistics Denmark that were first reported by Metroxpress. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170201/reported-rapes-in-denmark-double-in-two-years Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:44:03 +0100 reported-rapes-in-denmark-double-in-two-years A Danish man convicted of raping his daughter had his sentence overturned on Tuesday after a sleeping lay judge prompted a retrial. https://www.thelocal.dk/20161123/dane-acquitted-of-raping-child-after-lay-judge-falls-asleep Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:31:20 +0100 dane-acquitted-of-raping-child-after-lay-judge-falls-asleep A new study from the Danish Justice Ministry shows that the “remarkably low” crime figures reported in 2014 continued throughout 2015. https://www.thelocal.dk/20161028/denmark-had-another-year-of-record-low-crime Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:04:38 +0200 denmark-had-another-year-of-record-low-crime A 46-year-old priest admitted in court on Tuesday to having sexually relations with a girl who was just 12 years old at the time, TV Øst reported. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160920/danish-priest-admits-sexually-abusing-young-girl Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:00:21 +0200 danish-priest-admits-sexually-abusing-young-girl A 29-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and rape for an attack on a female jogger in Copenhagen. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160817/female-jogger-attacked-in-copenhagen Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:13:35 +0200 female-jogger-attacked-in-copenhagen Three asylum seekers have been charged for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at a festival on the island of Langeland. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160801/three-asylum-seekers-charges-for-groping-girl-at-festival Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:56:18 +0200 three-asylum-seekers-charges-for-groping-girl-at-festival A 24-year-old asylum seeker from Iran made an initial court appearance on Monday to face charges of having raped a 19-year-old woman over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160718/asylum-seeker-arrested-for-raping-teen-in-denmark Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:38:46 +0200 asylum-seeker-arrested-for-raping-teen-in-denmark According to prosecutors, a 58-year-old man forced a 14-year-old girl to sign a ‘slave contract’ and then brutally assaulted her numerous times. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160615/dane-58-accused-of-keeping-teen-sex-slave Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:23:29 +0200 dane-58-accused-of-keeping-teen-sex-slave Five men convicted of gang-raping a Danish tourist in the Indian capital in 2014 were Friday sentenced to life in jail, a prosecutor said, the maximum term possible. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160610/indian-men-get-life-sentence-for-raping-danish-tourist Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:50:12 +0200 indian-men-get-life-sentence-for-raping-danish-tourist A 35-year-old man was given Denmark’s harshest prison sentence on Tuesday after a court found him guilty of raping small boys and filming the attacks. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160224/danish-paedophile-locked-up-indefinitely Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:58:53 +0100 danish-paedophile-locked-up-indefinitely Police statistics have hidden a huge number of reports of rape, with as many as 700 per year being filed incorrectly. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160128/hundreds-of-rapes-hidden-by-danish-police Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:52:17 +0100 hundreds-of-rapes-hidden-by-danish-police The justice minister has proposed the first change to the nation’s rape laws in over a decade, which will increase prison sentences by one year. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151023/denmark-to-get-tough-on-rapists Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:25:49 +0200 denmark-to-get-tough-on-rapists UPDATED: A 25-year-old former refugee was found guilty on Wednesday of three kidnappings and rapes and two additional attempted rapes and will face indefinite imprisonment followed by deportation. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151021/serial-rapist-convicted-in-copenhagen Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:37:04 +0200 serial-rapist-convicted-in-copenhagen A 49-year-old family man was charged on Thursday with 15 sexual assaults against teenaged girls and a whole 41 girls have been called to testify against him. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151001/copenhagen-man-preyed-sexually-on-young-girls Thu, 01 Oct 2015 14:48:51 +0200 copenhagen-man-preyed-sexually-on-young-girls The same man is suspected of being behind three rapes and two attempted rapes over the past seven months in a case that was knocked out of the public spotlight by February's terror attack. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150928/suspected-serial-rapist-to-stand-trial-in-copenhagen Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:52:33 +0200 suspected-serial-rapist-to-stand-trial-in-copenhagen