The Sexual Harassment Law was passed earlier this year amid an uproar over the arrest and swift release of a man who ejaculated on a fellow bus passenger. Reporting HarassmentThe first arrest for sexual harassment on São Paulo’s public transit system was made the day after the law took effect. Authorities there refused to label the offense as sexual harassment, Barboza said, and instead classified it as a misdemeanor “insult to decency.”“From the time I arrived, I said it was sexual harassment, and the official said it was not,” she said. ... We will have to wait to see how the judiciary will deal with it — what they will and won’t view as sexual harassment. “I think putting a used condom in someone’s purse, against her will, without her consent, characterizes sexual harassment,” Braga said.

Source: Huffington Post November 08, 2018 21:00 UTC