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Tunisia's prime minister said Friday that his government would seek to amend a controversial law that allows men who rape underage girls to avoid punishment by marrying their victims.<\/p>\n
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Youssef Chahed's comments come two weeks after a Tunisian court approved the marriage of a 13-year-old girl to a relative who made her pregnant, under the terms of Article 227.<\/p>\n

The ruling infuriated non-governmental organisations who said the girl was raped.<\/p>\n

Dozens of people staged a protest outside parliament on Wednesday, denouncing Article 227 as a \"backward\" piece of legislation that should be revoked.<\/p>\n

Discussion of a draft law to be submitted to parliament to amend the article should be a \"priority\" pending a review of \"all articles concerning the fight against violence targeting women\", Chahed told Mosaique FM radio.<\/p>\n

Article 227 states that a man who has sex with a girl under 15 years old without the use of force can be sentenced to a six-year jail term but proceedings against him would be halted if he marries his victim.<\/p>\n

A bill to counter violence against women was drafted in 2014 but is still waiting to be discussed in parliament.<\/p>\n

\"Our country can no longer refer to laws that are old fashioned and which do not reflect the spirit of rights and liberties,\" said the 41-year-old prime minister.<\/p>\n

Chahed, whose country is viewed as being ahead of most Arab countries on women's rights, said Friday that 2017 \"will be the year of the child\" in Tunisia.<\/p>\n

He said he will strive to draw up a strategy to improve the lives of children in Tunisia, particularly in the field of education.<\/p>\n

A planned wedding party for the girl involved in the recent case has been scrapped after the government's child protection office called for the\u00a0marriage to be annulled.<\/p>\n

\"When it's a 13-year-old child, we can't talk of a sexual relation with consent. It's rape,\" the agency's representative Houda Abboudi said earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\"The court's decision didn't take into account the interests of this child,\" she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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