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Dominik Feri

Dominik Feri

1996

Nationality
Czech Republic
Occupation
politician

Dominik Feri (born 11 July 1996) is a former Czech politician and currently paroled sex offender who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021, representing TOP 09.

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Dominik Feri (born 11 July 1996) is a former Czech politician and currently paroled sex offender who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021, representing TOP 09. Feri entered politics in 2014 at the age of 18, becoming the youngest municipal councillor in the country, in the city of Teplice. In the 2017 Czech parliamentary election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, becoming the lower house's first black deputy (being of Ethiopian descent), as well as its youngest member at the age of 21. In 2021 Feri, a vocal and well-known supporter of the Me Too movement, resigned from politics following accusations from about 15 women regarding sexual abuse and rape between 2015 and 2020. On 2 November 2023, he was sentenced to three years in prison for rapes committed in 2016 and 2018, with one of the two victims raped in 2016 being a minor. Feri appealed against the verdict, but his appeal was dismissed by the Municipal Court in Prague on 22 April 2024. The judgement found that Feri had also attempted to rape a woman within the Parliament building. Feri's case, which included the prosecution's dismissal of allegations of multiple victims, led to an expansion of the definition of the crime of rape in the Czech Criminal Code, so that the legislation clearly covers also situations of rape paralysis. The change of law was dubbed "Lex Feri" by the Czech media.

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