Chinese city launches domestic violence database for couples considering marriage

A city in China will begin a pilot programme today that will allow its residents to check whether their partner has a history of domestic violence.

Residents of Yiwu will be able to search a database that will include details of individuals who have been "convicted, subjected to restraining orders or sentenced to detention over domestic violence since 2017." The scheme will be the first of its kind in China and comes four years after the country introduced its first law on domestic violence.

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