Scores of Afghan Shia women have protested against a new law, which they will take women's civil rights in the country back to the days of the Taliban.
Critics allege that the law allows marital rape by stopping a wife from refusing sex and prevents her from leaving her home without her husband's permission except on urgent business.
Wadir Safi, a law professor at Kabul University, told Al Jazeera that said that the law must be rewritten as it does not conform with either the constitution or Afghanistan's civil law.
"The public opinion of the Shia people has not been asked for, especially not from the females," he said.
"It really violates not only the constitution, but also the human rights of the Shia female, the terms are not in with international rights that have been accepted in the constitution."
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