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The 20 countries that still allow rapists to MARRY underage victims to escape jail, shocking UN report reveals
Updated: 14 Apr 2021, 15:00
TWENTY countries still allow rapists to marry their underage victims in order to escape prison, a shocking UN report has revealed.
More than a dozen countries allow men to have their rape convictions overturned if they marry the women or girls they have assaulted.
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The mother and sister of a 16-year-old girl who took her own life after being forced to marry her rapist in MoroccoCredit: AFP
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A protest in Beirut against a law which protected rapists from prosecution on the condition they married their victimsCredit: AFP