Madrid, Sept 24, 2025 (AFP) - Spanish court extends gender violence law to animal cruelty case

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2025-09-24

A court in Spain has convicted a man for killing a puppy in front of his partner in a ruling that for the first time applied a gender violence law to a case of animal abuse. A specialist gender violence court on the island of Gran Canaria found the 18-year-old guilty of throwing the four-month-old puppy the couple jointly owned off a cliff while threatening to take his own life. It handed him a suspended sentence of one year and one day in prison......

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