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Recording video evidence and being silenced by domestic violence

Original title: "domestic violence is not a household chore" should be repeated

On May 20, it was reported that Yao, a woman in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, was raped by a man while setting up a video camera to collect evidence of domestic violence. A man suddenly came out and punched Yao for more than 40 seconds. A child was crying all the time. 21, the Heshan public security bulletin said that after questioning, the suspect Chen Mou Wen confessed to the illegal act of deliberately injuring his wife Yao. At present, the suspect Chen Mouwen has been detained according to law.

With the improvement of people's awareness of civilization and law, many people have realized the illegality of domestic violence and dare to say no to it. In this case, the woman who was violated by domestic violence boldly recorded the video, effectively fixing the evidence. But it is undeniable that there are still some people who regard domestic violence as a household chore. What's more worrying is that many victims, for various reasons, are willing to swallow their anger, neither to publicize to the public, nor to call the police for help, resulting in continuous infringement. In this regard, it is urgent to improve the protection mechanism and activate the awareness and courage of victims to say no to domestic violence.

Although the "anti domestic violence law" has been implemented since March 1, 2016, and provides for personal protection order and other protective measures, in reality, the fight against domestic violence is still ignored by many people, especially some domestic violence victims subconsciously ignore their rights and submit to domestic violence. The main reason is that many people still have such backward consciousness, that is, both the perpetrators and the victims think that the domestic scandal should not be publicized, and the victims are shy to tell others, and less choose public power relief.

Moreover, both relatives, neighbors and law enforcement agencies still regard domestic violence as a "noisy" family affair and are unwilling to intervene excessively. In practice, relatives and neighbors are afraid of causing misunderstanding, and do not interfere with or interfere with the "noisy" within the family, or peacefully "persuade and do not persuade to leave.". Or after the public security organ detains the perpetrator, the victim is persuaded by his relatives to release the perpetrator out of understanding. In addition, the victims only use the police as a means to scare the perpetrators, and do not want to really let the perpetrators be punished. This makes law enforcement agencies and women's rights and interests protection agencies in an embarrassing situation of being "inside and outside", which makes it difficult to handle them properly.

In addition, due to the closeness and privacy of family life, even if the public power intervenes, it is difficult to effectively collect evidence, and then it is difficult to determine which is right or wrong, so that it is difficult for an honest official to break the housework. At the same time, many victims do not have the consciousness of obtaining evidence, neither do they want to call the police for help in time, nor do they know the effective fixed evidence, so that the perpetrators are free for a long time, and they are infringed for a long time.

In particular, it is too ideal to expect external forces to intervene in domestic violence effectively. If some contradictions can be reconciled through the persuasion of relatives and friends, the two sides of the dispute can still be reconciled as before. After the intervention of the public authority, it will intensify the contradictions and accelerate the rupture of family relations.

In other words, in the fight against domestic violence, the current existence of various practical factors is enough to suppress the victims and have enough courage and consciousness to say no to domestic violence. In this regard, fighting against domestic violence is not only as simple as a law, but also not as easy as the intervention of public authorities. This requires constant publicity of the common sense that any family member is an independent subject of rights and should be respected. At the same time, it also needs to improve the supporting measures such as psychological intervention, negative emotion counseling, victim protection and personal protection order.

In this case, the practice that the woman who was raped dared to take video evidence is undoubtedly worthy of recognition, which shows that she can not only grasp the discretion and clarify the boundaries between domestic violence and household chores, but also has the courage to say no to domestic violence, and has the determination and skills to hold the perpetrators accountable with fixed evidence. This is worth learning from the relevant departments and all people, that is, to completely abandon the old idea that "domestic violence is a household chore" and "domestic disgrace should not be publicized", and encourage more victims to have the consciousness, courage and ability to say no to domestic violence, and no longer always become the "Lambs" of domestic violence.