Part of Criminal Justice Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 2:45 pm ar 11 Ionawr 2024.
One of the challenges in adopting a definition of “intimate” that includes, for example, the removal of a hijab is that we are creating a criminal offence of that image being shared. It would not be obvious to anyone in this country who received a picture of a woman they did not know with her hair exposed that they were viewing an intimate image and committing a criminal offence.[Official Report,
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