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Afghan law allows husbands leave their wives without food if they refuse to have sex

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controversial law in Afghanistan.

The government has approved a law that "legalized discrimination" against the Shiite minority women, stipulating that may be deprived of food if refuse to have sex with her husband, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW).

According to this organization, a move denounced President Hamid Karzai's election, a candidate for re-election on August 20, the law was published in the Official Journal of Afghanistan on 27 July.

This law is, according to HRW, a new version of which was adopted in March by parliament and signed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, but had not entered into force, after arouse indignation in the West, where spoke of a legalization of domestic rape. HRW says

have seen a copy end of the new law, which includes "numerous articles regressive" for the rights of women, although not as restrictive as the initial project. For now, nobody has confirmed Afghanistan.

puts a price on rape

The new text provides that a husband has the right to remove any material support to his wife, including food, if he refuses to satisfy her sexual demands, and that custody children is entrusted only to men, fathers and grandparents.

also states that women must ask permission from her husband to work, and allows a rapist is acquitted of any charges if you pay "blood money" to the rape victim, said HWR.

This announcement comes just days before the presidential election on Aug. 20, in which Karzai is considered the favorite.

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