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Lawyer who said women deserved rape for wearing ripped jeans, jailed for three years

Egyptian Lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh who was jailed for 3 years over rape remarks. [Photo: Courtesy]

An Egyptian lawyer has been sentenced to three years in prison for saying that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped as punishment, including his own daughter.

Nabih al-Wahsh, a prominent conservative, was also fined 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,130).

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