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AFGHANISTAN: Virginity-related penalties “extremely unfair”

AFGHANISTAN: Virginity-related penalties “extremely unfair”

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KABUL 26 April 2011 (IRIN) - The penalties that Afghan women suffer whenever allegations of pre-marital sex and loss of virginity emerge, including death, are extreme, discriminatory and not in the penal code, activists said.

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