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A woman was killed at the Center for Socials Affairs in Ferizaj on Friday. The police arrested her ex husband as the main suspect.
A femicide case that occurred last Wednesday has shocked the Kosovar public and raised questions about the safety of women in the country.
A pregnant woman who had received a protection order from the courts was murdered in front of the Gynecology Clinic in Prishtina – in what looks like another institutional failure to prevent femicide.
Women's rights activists call for the maximum sentence to be applied to a man arrested on Wednesday for murdering his wife, saying too many femicides end in judicial procrastination and low sentences.
Protesters took to the streets of Ferizaj after the body of an 18-year-old woman, who doctors said died after being assaulted for two days, was left at the local hospital by her suspected assailants.
