FILE PHOTO: A protester with her mouth covered with a tape takes part in a demonstration against a Spanish court which sentenced five of six men accused of gang-raping a 14-year-old girl to 10 to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing the minor, but acquitted them of rape, outside the Justice Ministry in Madrid, Spain November 4, 2019. The placard reads: "I'm here for the ones who aren't." REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File Photo
MADRID (Reuters) - Fewer Spanish women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in 2020 than in previous years, but that statistic masks a rise in gender-based violence as COVID lockdowns left victims confined with their abusers, rights groups and officials say.
Emails to abuse helplines soared nearly six-fold in April, the first full month of Spain's lockdown.
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