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No plans to make marital rape a crime, says Hanipa Maidin

By MARTIN CARVALHO, RAHIMY RAHIM and TERRENCE TAN

KUALA LUMPUR: There are no plans to make marital rape a crime, says Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Hanipa Maidin.

"There  is no decision to amend the law to make marital or spousal rape a crime," he said when answering a question raised by Maria Chin Abdullah (PH-Petaling Jaya) in Parliament today (Oct 30).

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