The Ministry of Equality has requested an instruction from the Public Prosecution Service setting out the criteria that prosecutors must follow in each case, but has only initiated a follow-up investigation at this time.
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The Prosecutor General’s Office has required all higher prosecutor’s offices to send it the court rulings and the reports of the public prosecutor in those cases where the sentences of sex offenders have been reduced following the adoption of the law of only yes is yes.
In an official letter, the head of the technical secretariat of the prosecutor’s office, Ana Isabel García León, demands those documents from the regional prosecutors at the request of the Attorney General, Alvaro Garcia Ortizto make “a trace” of said resolutions.
The Attorney General has spoken of downward revisions to sex offenders’ sentences in application of the Guarantee of Sexual Freedom Act, many with the approval of prosecutors, for the first time since sentencing began.
The Ministry of Equality has asked the Prosecutor’s Office for an instruction setting out the criteria that prosecutors must follow in each case, but García Ortiz has started this follow-up and has promised that the Prosecutor’s Office will act in each case with calling of protect victims Y “clear respect for constitutional principles”.
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Source: EITB

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