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Law Will Let Afghan Husbands Starve Wives Who Withhold Sex

Afghan women attend a gathering in support of presidential candidate Mirwais Yasini for the August election, in Kabul July 7, 2009. An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN ELECTIONS POLITICS)

BAMIYAN, Afthanistan - An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.

President Hamid Karzai ordered a review of the legislation after The Independent revealed that it negated the need for consent within marriage.

President Barack Obama described it as "abhorrent", Gordon Brown said Britain would "not tolerate" it, and other Nato countries threatened to withdraw their troops unless the legislation was drastically re-written.