September 25, 2007
Policemen sacked and demoted for taking second wife
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - One policeman in mainly Muslim Malaysia has been sacked and another demoted -- both for taking a second wife.
A newspaper said on Saturday the pair, who were married abroad, had not sought prior approval from their respective commanders.
"In the force, we have to vet whom they (policemen) want to marry as a policy," the New Straits Times quoted the country's police chief, Musa Hassan, as saying.
"You can't just simply marry anyone for security reasons. They got married overseas and they didn't even inform they went overseas," he said. "Let this be a lesson to other police officers."
Just over half of Malaysia's 26 million people are Muslims. Islam says a man can take up to four wives if he is able to support them.
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September 12, 2007
Woman allegedly shoots cheating husband
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A woman is accused of shooting her husband four times with a 16-gauge double-barreled shotgun after learning of an affair.
Eddie Martin, 51, survived the attack, but may have to have a limb amputated. Sheryl Martin, also 51, had to reload after the first two shots.
Martin made her first appearance on Monday in Clark County Superior Court. Martin was released on bail and will live with her parents. She will be formally charged September 21st.
Eddie Martin told his wife he was having an affair and wanted a divorce.
They argued and Eddie went to sleep in a camper. Sheryl found a shotgun, loaded it and allegedly shot him while he was in bed.
Sheryl Martin called 911 and told a dispatcher what she had done and was arrested on Saturday.
The pair have been married for 30 years.
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September 08, 2007
Adulterers beware - or pay the price
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Married Colombians engaged in passionate extra-curricular activities may soon have to think twice about their philandering ways if a senator's proposed legislation punishing adultery gets the green light.
Sen. Edgar Espindola said he has proposed a law that would impose fines and enforced community service as punishment for adulterers in an effort to protect family values and shield children from broken homes.
"I believe a lot of my companions are going to support this initiative," Espindola said on Tuesday. "This project should motivate Colombians to reflect on the importance of the marriage, the home and the importance of family."
He said aggrieved parties could take complaints and evidence such as photographs to local family judges, who would decide to impose fines of up to 20 minimum monthly salaries -- around $4,000 -- and obligatory welfare service.
Spouses forgiven by partners would escape punishment.
Some local radio commentators joked the proposal would get short shrift in Colombia's Congress because lawmakers were likely to want to hide their own indiscretions in the mostly Roman Catholic country.
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September 05, 2007
Colombia mulls fines to cool cheaters' passions
BOGOTA (AFP) - Colombia is considering legislation that would slap adulterers and their partners in passion with hefty fines and community service, in an effort to keep their clothes on and their families in mind.
"We are proposing that proven infidelity be sanctioned with (the equivalent of almost) 4,000 US dollars in fines and social work," senator Edgar Espindola told RCN radio.
Espindola said that the penalties would be not only for husbands or wives who stray, but also the people with whom they have their flings.
"We have been realising that most martial breakups in Colombia start with chaeting, and that many times there is domestic violence related to it," he added.
He said he hoped the bill would "make all Colombians think twice about the importance of the home, of marriage, keeping their word and respecting their husbands and wives."
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July 24, 2007
Man finds out wife, not daughter, having affair
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli man who hired a detective to find out whether his daughter was cheating on her husband was told by the investigator his wife was in fact the one being unfaithful, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday.
The man had his daughter followed at the request of his son-in-law, who had been suspicious of his wife's behavior. The daughter was found innocent but the private investigator managed to snap photographs of the mother and another man caught in the act, the Maariv daily said.
"I saved my daughter's marriage and at the same time, saved myself from a woman who had it all in life but chose another man," the man, who has since sought to end the marriage, was quoted as telling his lawyer.
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April 06, 2007
Uganda scraps "sexist" adultery law
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda scrapped an adultery law on Thursday that campaigners said discriminated against women.
Uganda's Constitutional Court ordered the changes to the Penal Code, under which it was legal for a married man to have an affair with an unmarried woman but against the law for a married woman to have an affair with an unmarried man.
"Section 154 of the Penal Code Act which penalises married women on the offence of adultery is discriminatory," the Constitutional Court said in its ruling.
Women found guilty of the offence had previously faced a fine or up to a year in jail.
The ruling came after a legal challenge filed against the east African country's attorney general by a group of female lawyers.
Their lawyer, Ladislaus Rwakafuzi, said the old rules had given cheating husbands a green light to pursue single women.
"Discrimination concerning sexual relations amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment contrary to the law," he told Reuters after the verdict. "Our success today is historic."
The court also scrapped parts of a law that gave men more rights than women if their partner died.
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March 02, 2007
Italy arrests man for locking up "lively" wife
ROME, Feb 28 (Reuters Life!) - Italian police arrested a jealous husband in the north of the country who forced his young wife to stay at home for two years because she was "too lively" to be let outside.
"She was too lively. She absolutely had to be locked up otherwise who knows what she might have done," Egyptian immigrant Emad Zied, 31, was quoted as saying in Corriere della Sera daily newspaper on Wednesday.
His 20-year-old bride, Rasha, was rescued by local police and firemen who forced open the door of their apartment in the Italian city of Crema after a tip off from Rasha's family.
The report said that Rasha rarely ever saw the light of day, but was "escorted" outside by her husband on occasion. Zied is being held in jail on suspicion of kidnapping.
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September 01, 2006
Cambodia passes adultery law, opposition walks out
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's parliament passed a law Friday which could send adulterers to jail for up to a year.
The vote prompted a walkout by opposition lawmakers who said the law carried echoes of the Khmer Rouge and the Taliban in a country which should be tackling poverty and corruption instead of legislating about morality.
But the government argued the law would help reduce pervasive corruption by removing the temptation for officials to steal from state coffers to maintain mistresses as well as halting what it called a decline in morality.
"This law is also aimed at reducing corruption, because when government officials have more women, they seek more financial sources to support their girls," National Assembly Chairman Heng Samrin said.
Sam Rainsy, chief of his eponymous opposition party, was not impressed.
"The government wants to distract the public from the important issues of poverty and the culture of impunity," he said of a country where 35 percent of the 14 million population live on less than $1 a day and the powerful rarely face justice.
Many married Cambodian men keep mistresses if they can afford them and the government argued that making adultery a criminal offence would help shore up the family.
Some wives resent the unfaithfulness of their husbands to the point of violence.
In the last 7 years, at least 108 cases were reported of women being attacked by acid, some left horrendously scarred, usually by an outraged wife, the Licadho human rights group says.
Few such cases made it to court, most being settled by compensation.
The opposition argued that a law on adultery smacked too much of rigidly authoritarian regimes like the Khmer Rouge and the Taliban for a country still recovering from the Pol Pot years in which 1.7 million people were killed or died of overwork and starvation.
"There are only a couple of countries in the world which prosecuted personal immorality based on their sacred texts such as the ousted Taliban regime," opposition MP Eng Chhay Eang said in the debate.
"They forced people to follow their tradition which cannot be accepted. So did Pol Pot's regime. They murdered people who had love affairs," he added.
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