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shenmue

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Tue Mar 10, 2015, 08:22 AM Mar 2015

Brazil: president signs new bill to punish domestic violence

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From the article:

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has signed a new law which sets tough new penalties for the killing of women and girls.

Murders linked to domestic violence will carry sentences of between 12 and 30 years.
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