Egypt drops rape law called failure CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - President Hosni Mubarak has decreed an end to an Egyptian law allowing rapists to go free if they marry their victims. The government newspaper Al-Ahram quoted the Minister of Justice, Farouk Seif el-Nasr, as saying the law has "encouraged the criminals to perpetrate their crime instead of deterring them." Parents of rape victims have used the law, which dates to 1904, as a way to regain family honor. Rapists have used it to escape punishment. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559052805-39d>
