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Thu 04 Apr 2009Stones and abuse flung at women protesting rape law
ISLAMIC TRADITIONALISTS flung abuse and even a few stones at hundreds of Afghan women protesting against a law which the UN says legalises marital rape, during occasionally ugly confrontations in Kabul yesterday.
About 200 women were met by a roughly equal number of mostly male counter-protesters calling for “death to the enemies of Islam” and furiously condemning attempts to repeal a law that has antagonised western leaders.
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