Suicide of a Moroccan girl forced to marry the raped

 

Announced Moroccan non-governmental organization, told AFP that a Moroccan girl was sixteen-year-old committed suicide after he was forced to marry a man who raped her to escape from prison thanks to the interpretation of the penal law in Morocco.The chairwoman of the Democratic League for Women's Rights Moroccan Fawzia Asola that "honest Filali raped and committed suicide last week in Alaarash town near Tangier (north) to protest against her marriage to the man who raped her."She said President of the Association based in Casablanca-based that the girl committed suicide by drinking rat poison.And men are able to escape from the condemnation of the judiciary according to an article in the Penal Code.Asola said that this article states that "the rapist escape from prison if he marries his victim."She explained that "Article 475 of the Penal Code to refrain from rape as a crime and contains contradictions since it punishes a snap."She expressed regret that this article defends "family and norms, but it does not take into account a woman's right as an individual."Fawzia Asola announced on Thursday before sit-in will be held in the Court of First Instance sentenced Alaarash where marriage.The marriage contract in the family court in this town after a reconciliation between the two families, six months before and after a complaint by the parents of the victim of a minor subject to this cause to the custody of her father.Asola said that the NGO letter on this issue to the Prime Minister Abdul Ilah Benkirane Islamic.He believed the lawyer Khalil Idrissi of the Bar Association in Rabat said, "This article should be adjusted to grant more rights to women."Under this law, punishable by prison rape between five and ten years, and if it becomes a minor penalty for ten years to twenty years.Morocco and dealing with networks of social networking this issue extensively since Wednesday.
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