Maldives president refuses to ratify marital rape law

[JURIST] Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen refused Thursday to ratify a law that would partially criminalize marital rape, calling it "un-Islamic." The law was passed [Minivan News report] by the Maldivian Parliament 67-2 last month. While the law would not have criminalized all cases of marital rape, it would have outlaw it in cases when a dissolution action is pending, when a divorce action has been filed by the husband, if the intent of the intercourse is to transmit a sexually...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/01/maldives-president-refuses-to-ratify-marital-rape-law.php

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