this just in from Ruth Moon at Her.meneutics:
President Hamid Karzai agreed to review the law after outcries from Western agencies.
After heavy criticism from Western aid agencies and human-rights watchers, Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai agreed over the weekend to review a new law he had supported last week that legalizes forced sex within marriage and places Taliban-era restrictions on women in the country’s Shiite minority.
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