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Now, domestic violence legal in Taliban-led Afghanistan — as long as no ‘broken bones, open wounds’

The Taliban has issued a new penal code in Afghanistan that codifies some of its most restrictive practices, raising alarm among rights groups over its impact on women and children.Signed by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, the 90-page criminal code permits husbands to physically abuse their wives and children, provided it does not cause “broken bones…

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