Going backwards or what?
 

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The husband's lawyer, Hamdi Al Sheewi, in a civil lawsuit filed against Pearce has accused her of cheating on her husband by having consensual sex with another man (who is still at large).
Maybe her husband has a small one and that is why!!
Joking aside this country has some really ****ed up and antiquated rules.

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The outcome was probably expected. As rightly suggested by Blue Cat in an earlier thread, there are two sides to every story.

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It's not the only country like that - the only non-Muslim country in the world that still punishes people for consensual sex outside of marriage is South Korea as far as I know...and then only in cases of adultery.

N.

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I think Taiwan and India, too.

There are states in the US with unrepealed adultery laws :ohmy:

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Mind you, its still legal to kill a Welshman, with a bow and arrow, within the walls of the City of York...

So some arent so dumb......

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agreed, and whilst she was charged with adultery, she wasn't actually married at the time so I am thinking it is more a case of sex outside of marriage, not her marriage if that makes sense.

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Wasn't aware India and Taiwan were like that too.

As for unrepealed laws - well they don't count unless they are enforced really - there's plenty of crazy laws they haven't got rid of yet. It was only recently blasphemy ceased to be a crime in the UK for example!

N.

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is killing swans still treason?

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Don't think it ever was, although all wild mute swans were once owned by the Crown.

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yeah, I think it came from that... all swans were owned by the crown, so if you killed one, you'd poached the crown's property --> trouble.