New Taliban penal code legalizes domestic violence against women
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The Taliban government in Afghanistan has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn't cause broken bones or open wounds. T...

The Taliban has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 days ago

    that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds.

    Sure, as if broken bones or open wounds would motivate an abused helpless victim to go against it or take legal actions. Which they aren’t allowed either.

    I so hope religions with their hells are right, so these dimwitted pathetic slavers will rot there in all eternity. But…