An Italian court, the Court of Cassation which is the highest appeal court in the country, primarily comprising elderly male judges said that it is acceptable for women to lie about having committed adultery to the police in some cases since ‘the fact of having an affair is a circumstance that could cause damage to her honour in the minds of her family and friends’.This is apparently the same court which said (in 1999) that women wearing tight jeans could not be raped because such jeans cannot be removed without their consent although that ruling was later rescinded. At the time, the court had 410 male judges and 10 female judges. [5]
Links:
[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/3/08/witaly208.xml
[2] http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/News/Article.aspx?id=723004
[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7284134.stm
[4] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3503999.ece
[5] http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E0D7133AF935A25751C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=
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