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  • Austria - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … Sexual assault occurs when a person is coerced by force or dangerous threat to perform or tolerate a sexual act that does not fall under rape according to Section 201 of the Criminal Code. …

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    Austria
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  • Belgium - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … Indecent assault is defined in terms of use of violence or threats for …

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    Belgium
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  • Bulgaria - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … is an act with the purpose of arousing or satisfying a sexual desire without copulation regarding a person who has …

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    Bulgaria
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    • Violence
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  • Croatia - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … In Croatia, the term "sexual intercourse without consent" is the one most closely related to sexual assault, which means: whoever performs sexual …

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    Croatia
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  • Cyprus - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … the term "abduction" is the one most closely related to sexual assault, which means: any person who, with intent to marry or …

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    Cyprus
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    • Violence
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  • Czech Republic - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … In the Czech Republic, sexual assault is covered by several offences: Sexual Coercion 1. Whoever forces other person by violence or …

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    Czechia
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  • Denmark - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

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  • Estonia - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

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  • Finland - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

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  • France - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … Sexual assault consists of any sexual offense involving violence, constraint, threat or …

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    France
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  • Germany - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … is unprotected and at the mercy of the offender, to suffer sexual acts by the offender or a third person on their own person or to engage actively in sexual activity with the offender or a third person, shall be …

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  • Greece - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … offending the dignity of another person in the field of sexual life. …

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    Greece
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  • Hungary - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

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  • Ireland - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … Sexual assault means an indecent assault on a male or a female. …

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    Ireland
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  • Italy - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … Italy uses the term "sexual violence", which is: whoever, by force or by threat or … of authority, forces another person to commit or suffer sexual acts. …

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  • Latvia - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … who commits pederastic or lesbian or other unnatural sexual acts of gratification, if such acts have been …

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  • Lithuania - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … the other person’s will to satisfy the former person’s sexual desires through anal, oral or interfemoral intercourse …

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    Lithuania
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  • Luxembourg - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … Luxembourg uses the term "indecent assault": any indecent assault committed without violence or threats of persons of …

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    Luxembourg
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  • Malta - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … Whosoever shall be guilty of any violent indecent assault which does not, in itself, constitute any of the …

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    Malta
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  • Netherlands - Sexual Assault (excl. rape)

    … lewd acts, will be guilty of the offence of factual assault of the dignity and punished with imprisonment of …

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    Netherlands
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