The appalling loophole is still allowed in many countries including Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya and Palestine
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Jordan is on the brink of repealing a law that affords rapists protection from prosecution if they marry their victims.
Several reports confirmed that the Jordanian cabinet moved to close the legal loophole on Sunday following years of national campaigns and efforts by lawmakers, women and human rights activists.
“It’s 2017. How can a rapist be allowed to go free and at the same time make a girl or a woman’s life living hell?” Suad Abu-Dayyeh, a consultant for the feminist campaign group Equality Now in the Middle East and North Africa region, told the Independent last month after Jordan’s Royal Committee for Developing the Judiciary and Enhancing the Rule of Law first recommended getting rid of the law in February.
Similar legal loopholes have been closed in Morocco, Egypt and Ethiopia but countries like Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia all still offered similar loopholes as of December 2016 according to Vice News.
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How can they force a victim to marry a rapist in so many countries?? This is ridiculous. The legal system is truly messed up
Let’s hope they get a http://www.thailand-lawyer.com/divorce.html to wipe those men clean. But then again they’re probably not allowed to divorce them. Sad