A quickie post in the spirit of cross between women’s rights and cultural issues…
<<The Moroccan government is looking to amend a controversial law that allow rapists to marry their victims after a 16-year-old girl killed herself, the country’s communications minister has told Al Jazeera.
Amina Al Filali, 16, drank rat poison last week in Larache, near the city of Tangiers after being severely beaten during a forced marriage to her rapist.
The girl’s rapist had sought to escape prison by invoking an article of the penal code that he claimed would exonerate him if the rape victim was his wife.>>
The outrage on this issue has been global. Social justice groups in Morocco have started a facebook page “We are all Amina Filali“. There is a petition on the facebook page calling for a significant change of Moroccan’s law Article 475 which includes a provision of a kidnapper marrying the victim in order to exonerate the honour of the victim’s family.
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