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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Michelle Obama Supports Jail For LGBT People And Raped Women

Michelle And The Girls Dining With Moroccan Princess.
She Supports Prison Time For People Just Being Gay.

And our First Lady is over there fawning all over her.

According to Human Rights Watch Morocco:


Morocco is an authoritarian regime according to the Democracy Index of 2014. The Freedom Of The Press 2014 report gives it a rating of "Not Free".

Moroccan courts continued to jail persons for homosexual behavior under article 489 of the penal code, which prohibits “lewd or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex.” Two of six men arrested in Beni Mellal in April and charged under this provision received prison terms for this and other offenses.

On October 2, a court sentenced a British tourist and a Moroccan acquaintance to four months in prison for homosexuality. After spending about three weeks in jail, the two men were released pending appeal.

Furthermore, Morocco criminalizes consensual sex between unmarried people and so places rape victims (always women so far) at risk of prosecution if the accused rapist is acquitted.

The Family Code discriminates against women with regard to inheritance and the right of husbands to unilaterally divorce their wives. Reforms to the code in 2004 improved women’s rights in divorce and child custody, and raised the age of marriage from 15 to 18. However, judges routinely allow girls to marry below this age. In September 2014, the Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern that Morocco had not adopted a legislation criminalizing all forms of domestic violence, including marital rape, although violence against women and girls in the home is reported to be pervasive.

The Washington Post ranked Morocco as the 5th worst country in the world for women's rights.  They tied with Saudi Arabia.

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