Portugal's Facts and Laws

• In 2010, 43 women lost their lives at the hands of abusive partners.
• At least 9 out of the 43 women murdered in 2010 had already pressed charges against their assailants.
• 29 of the victims in 2010 still in the abusive relationship, generally a boyfriend, partner, husband or lover.  
• Only 8 women had ended their relationships with their would-be murderers.
• The average age of the victims were between 26 and 45 years old,
• 90. 6% women and 9% men

With the new article 152, whoever, in a repetitive manner or not, imposes physical or mental abuses including:

- bodily punishments

-deprivations of liberty and sexual offences to the spouse or ex-spouse

 -to a person of another or of the same sex with whom the agent maintains or has maintained a relationship equal to a relationship of spouses, even if without cohabitation

-to progenitor of common descendant in first degree

-or to a person particularly undefended, due to age, deficiency, disease, pregnancy or economic dependency, who cohabitates with him.

Punishment: imprisonment from 1 to 5 years.

-If act is against or in front of  a minor

-In common home or the victim’s residence

Punishment: imprisonment from 2 to 5 years

-If, from the acts above, result in death

Punishment: imprisonment from 3 to 10 years

- The cases where it results grievous bodily injury

 Punishment: imprisonment from 2 to 8 years

		Freq.	%
Strict Sense
Physical Abuse		3916	30
Mental Abuse		4804	36.8
Threats/Coercion		2672	20.4
Defamation/Slurs		1443	11
Sexual Crimes		237	1.8
	Sub-total	13072	100
Wider Sense
Attempted Murder		27	3.4
Murder		1	0.1
Unlawful Entry		134	16.9
Violation of Correspondence		71	8.9
Violation of Privacy		81	10.2
Child Abduction		25	3.1
Violation of Alimony		61	7.7
Criminal Damage		84	10.6
Theft/Robbery		83	10.5
Rape		87	11
Other related Crimes		140	17.6
	Sub-Total	794	100
	Total	13866	100