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Morocco activists target 'rape marriage law'

2012-07-27 1 Dailymotion

Amina Filali was just 15 when she was allegedly raped, and was subsequently pressured by judges and - by some accounts - her own mother, to became the child bride of her rapist.<br /><br />A few months later Filali killed herself, reportedly because she was unable to endure ill-treatment from her husband.<br /><br />Filali's incident has brought the marriage of minors and the marriage of victims to their rapists to the fore.<br /><br />Now, activists in Morocco have staged a mock trial as part of their campaign to rid the 50-year-old "oppressive" article from the country's law books.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Khadija Magardie reports.

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