{"id":90,"date":"2009-03-31T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=90"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:06:17","slug":"does-new-afghan-law-legalize-rape-in-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2009\/03\/31\/does-new-afghan-law-legalize-rape-in-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Does new Afghan law legalize rape in marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/5080797\/Hamid-Karzai-signs-law-legalising-rape-in-marriage.html\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/em> is reporting that President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has signed\u00a0the Shiite Personal Status Law, legislation allow the Shia community to settle family law cases involving sexual relations within marriage, divorce, inheritance, rights of movement, and other matters, \u00a0according to Shia tradition \u2014 sharia law \u2014 at the expense of equal rights for women. From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The law, which has not been publicly released, is believed to state women can only seek work, education or doctor\u2019s appointments with their husband\u2019s permission. [\u2026] Only fathers and grandfathers are granted custody of children under the law, according to the United Nations Development Fund for Women. [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill was passed in both houses of the Afghan parliament. Thus far, United Nations\u00a0representatives have not been allowed to see\u00a0a copy of the approved bill. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/archives\/025463.php\"><em>First seen at the JihadWatch blog<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph is reporting that President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has signed\u00a0the Shiite Personal Status Law, legislation allow the Shia community to settle family law cases involving sexual relations within marriage, divorce, inheritance, rights of movement, and other matters, \u00a0according to Shia tradition \u2014 sharia law \u2014 at the expense of equal rights for women. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2009\/03\/31\/does-new-afghan-law-legalize-rape-in-marriage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does new Afghan law legalize rape in marriage?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}