New Afghan law allows husbands to starve wives to death for refusing sex.

Form Daily Mail:

An Afghan bill permitting a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has become law.

The original bill caused international outrage earlier this year, forcing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to withdraw it.

But critics say the amended version of the law, brought into effect on July 27, remains highly repressive.

They accuse Mr Karzai of selling out Afghan women for the sake of conservative Shia support ahead of this week's presidential election.

The law governs family life for Afghanistan's Shia minority, which makes up about 15 per cent of the population of about 30million.

It allows a husband to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands.

In the original version, Shia women were ordered to have sex with their husbands every four days at a minimum.

It also removed the need for consent to sex within marriage, effectively condoning rape.