In June 1035, the Soviet Union passed a law that changed the punishment for fleeing the country. From that moment on, flight outside the country was equated with treason and became a particularly serious state crime, which was punishable by death. In addition to the fugitive, members of his family were also liable. This law became one of the most cruel and severe in the Soviet era. But this was not the only law that could now raise eyebrows. In Soviet history, there were many laws and decrees that would now seem very strange or overly cruel. Life remembered the most severe and unusual laws of the Soviet era.
Trade Prohibition Act
Two decrees, effectively prohibiting trade and market relations in the country, were issued in November 1918. We are talking about the decrees of the Council of People's Commissars "On organizing the supply of the population with all products and items for personal consumption and the household in order to replace the private trade apparatus" and "On the state monopoly on the trade in certain products and items."
The meaning of the law was to completely abolish the market (including the black one), primarily the food trade, and transfer the distribution of any goods throughout the country to the hands of the party. Having come to power, the Bolsheviks, for ideological reasons, tried to supplant market relations and replace them with natural commodity exchange, when peasants grow bread and exchange it in the cities for industrial products.
These decrees had not only ideological, but also quite pragmatic goals. The Bolsheviks mobilized a gigantic army to fight the whites, which numbered about 5.5 million people. Which is more than the number of the Red Army at the time of the start of the Second World War and twice the size of the modern army of 1.5 billion China. It is very difficult to feed such a huge mob even in peacetime, and even more so in conditions of complete collapse of industry and chaos.
Theoretically, it was supposed to exchange bread for manufactured goods. But in the conditions of the collapse of industry, there was nothing to give the peasants. Therefore, bread (and a number of other goods) was forcibly confiscated by armed food detachments and subsequently redistributed by the party. 
When abolished: In response to constant crop losses, farmers have drastically reduced their area under crops. The already insignificant crops were badly affected by the drought of 1921. The result was a monstrous famine that engulfed territories with a population of about 30-40 million people. The Bolsheviks were unable to cope with the situation and turned to the capitalist states for help. Starvation deaths are estimated at about 5 million people.
Despite regular round-ups of "pouchers" (who sold food illegally) and their periodic executions, the black market successfully survived the decrees and existed all the time. Moreover, the middle-level Bolsheviks themselves often used his services. The decrees were canceled in 1921 in connection with the transition to the New Economic Policy, when market relations were partially restored.
Euthanasia law
Conditional name of the note to the 143rd article of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1922. This note allowed the killing of a person, committed out of compassion for him, and in fact was the legalization of euthanasia. It was formulated as follows: "A murder committed at the insistence of the murdered out of a sense of compassion is not punished."
The initiator of this note was a high-ranking Bolshevik, Yuri Larin (Lurie), who put forward this idea when discussing the code at a meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Larin suffered from progressive muscular atrophy and pointed out that if one of his Bolshevik comrades had obtained poison for him at his request, he would have been tried for murder, which would not have been fair at all. Therefore, he proposed that a note be added to the code about mercy killing.
When canceled: The note lasted only a few months. The new Criminal Code was published in May 1922, and already in November of the same year, this note was removed from it. Probably out of fear of widespread use of this practice.
Dispossessed Law
The 65th article of the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1918 affected the rights of a number of Soviet citizens who were engaged in certain activities before the revolution. It was about merchants, clergymen, policemen, gendarmes, persons who had "unearned income", and those who used hired labor.
Formally, according to the law, they were only forbidden to participate in elections both as candidates and as voters. In fact, the dispossessed, as this category was called, were subjected to very versatile discrimination. In addition, members of their families were subjected to the same discrimination. It was almost impossible for them to get a good job, and the apparatus was periodically cleaned from randomly dispossessed people. During the periods of the card system, they were issued cards of the latest category, or even not issued at all. The children of the deprived could not get a higher education and were not subject to conscription into the army - only to the rear militia, which resembled a mixture of a construction battalion and alternative service. The militias were engaged in various kinds of economic work (logging, work in mines, construction) and at the same time paid a special tax, since the militia, unlike the army, was self-supporting. The term of service was three years, while the service itself was often much harder than service in the conventional army. 
Campaigns were periodically launched to expel disenfranchised children from high school. Theoretically, it was possible to get out of the deprived, but for this it was necessary to prove one's loyalty to the Soviet regime for many years. For example, the well-known Soviet historian Pyotr Zaionchkovsky managed to enter a university only at the age of more than 30, having previously worked at a factory for ten years without any complaints. By the beginning of the 1930s, there were more than 3 million people affected by the rights of citizens in the country.
When canceled: the new Constitution of the USSR in 1936 abolished the existence of dispossessed people.
The Law of the Three Spikelets
Adopted in August 1932 against the backdrop of increased theft from collective farm fields due to the very difficult food situation in the country. The breakdown of traditional relations in the countryside, dispossession and collectivization led to another famine that broke out in the Soviet country. Against this background, the theft of collective farm property (primarily food) has become more frequent.
In order to put an end to this, truly draconian measures were taken on the initiative of Stalin (he himself described them in such a way in correspondence with Kaganovich). Any collective farm property, including crops in the fields, was equated to state property, and its theft was punishable by death. In the presence of mitigating circumstances (worker-peasant origin, need, small amounts of theft), the execution was replaced by imprisonment for a period of at least 10 years. At the same time, those convicted in these cases were not subject to amnesty.
This has led to the fact that petty thefts, which were traditionally punished by public censure, corrective labor or, in the worst case, several months in prison, have moved into the category of especially serious state crimes. And a collective farmer who picked a few spikelets in the field or dug up a few potato tubers turned into a particularly dangerous criminal. 
Since the decision of the Council of People's Commissars did not indicate the volume of theft, after which criminal liability came, any theft, even in the smallest amount, fell under the action of this law and was punished by 10 years in prison.
How it ended: after the law began to be applied, the number of convicts increased to such an extent that even the Kremlin grabbed their heads. There was simply nowhere to place such a number of prisoners at that time. Starting in the spring of 1933, job descriptions began to go to the regions on not being brought to justice for petty and isolated theft. However, locally, they were generally not listened to. Therefore, in 1936, at the highest level, a review of all cases in this category was initiated to relieve prisons. As a result of the revision, it turned out that most of the people were convicted unreasonably - for insignificant theft. All these people were released from prisons with the removal of their criminal record.
Foreign Escape Law
In June 1935, escaping abroad was equated with treason. The fugitive, in case of falling into the hands of Soviet law enforcement officers, was subject to the death penalty. His relatives, who did not inform about the impending escape, were subject to imprisonment for a period of 5 to 10 years with confiscation of property. If they did not know about the intentions of a relative to escape, then in this case they were subject to exile in Siberia for a five-year period.
First of all, the law concerned military personnel and officials. Since ordinary citizens already did not have the opportunity to leave the country, unless they lived in the border areas and did not know the secret paths there. The law was adopted in connection with the increasing cases of flight of officials sent on business trips abroad. Since the late 1920s, the number of defectors began to grow rapidly. 
A feature of this law was severe sanctions against all relatives of the fugitive. Defectors, as a rule, were beyond the reach of the Soviet court, but the principle of collective punishment directed at their relatives, according to the plan of the initiators of the law, was supposed to keep potential defectors from their intentions.
When abolished: flight abroad was considered a serious crime until the very end of the Soviet era. However, in Khrushchev's time, the legislation was corrected and the fugitives no longer faced the death penalty. In addition, the principle of collective punishment of the fugitive's relatives was abolished.
Juvenile Punishment Law
In April 1935, by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, the age of criminal responsibility was lowered from 14 to 12 years.
The publication of the decision immediately gave rise to a legal collision. According to this resolution, criminal liability with the application of all measures of criminal punishment (including the death penalty) was to be brought from the age of 12. However, the Criminal Code prohibited the application of the death penalty to minors. In order to avoid confusion, after some time a special clarification was issued by the Prosecutor General's Office and the Supreme Court, which stated: "the instruction according to which execution is not applied to persons under the age of 18 should be considered as no longer valid." However, each such verdict had to be agreed with the Prosecutor General without fail. 
The law was seen primarily as a deterrent. In the mid-30s, after collectivization, dispossession and famine in the country, as after the Civil War, child homelessness increased sharply. And with it, juvenile delinquency. According to the legislation in force at that time, adolescents under 14 years of age were not held criminally liable in any case. Under the new law, teenagers from the age of 12 were liable for theft, bodily harm, murder and attempted murder.
When repealed: The USSR was repeatedly criticized for this law, including by friendly Western public figures. Nevertheless, the law formally lasted until 1959. Over the 24 years of its existence, at least one case of the execution of a known juvenile offender is known. In 1940, 16-year-old serial rapist and murderer of children Vinnichenko was shot. But imprisonment from the age of 12 was really applied. The teenagers served their punishment in special places of detention for minors.
Law on being late for work
The law criminalizing absenteeism, tardiness and unauthorized leaving work was passed in June 1940. At the same time, he extended the working day to eight hours. The end of the 1930s was marked by a significant tightening of labor legislation. Not only were output rates increased, but the length of working hours was also increased. In addition, maternity leave for women was reduced (to 35 days before childbirth and 28 days after childbirth). In 1939, the practice of punishment for being late for work for all workers and employees in the country was significantly tightened. Being late over 20 minutes resulted in automatic dismissal.
The 1940 law was a kind of culmination of the crackdown. From that moment on, absenteeism without good reason, as well as being late for more than 20 minutes (equivalent to absenteeism) was punishable by corrective labor for a period of six months with deduction of a quarter of wages in favor of the state. Basically, the punishment was served at the place of work. That is, de facto, everything came down to a fine in the amount of a quarter of the monthly salary, which the offender paid every month for six months. However, if during the period of serving a sentence a person again allowed absenteeism or being late, this was considered an attempt to evade the imposed punishment, and the culprit served the remaining term of punishment in places of deprivation of liberty. Arbitrary dismissal and transfer to another place of work were also prohibited. Only the director of the enterprise could give permission for dismissal. Unauthorized change of work without the permission of the director was punishable by imprisonment for a term of two to four months. For harboring truants or arbitrarily resigned workers, directors of enterprises were threatened with criminal liability. 
Good reasons for being late or absenteeism were considered illness, various kinds of force majeure circumstances (fire, accident, etc.) or the illness of a close relative (meaning a sick child who had no one to leave with in case of leaving).
The intention of the law was to prevent mass dismissals of workers from factories after the extension of the working day and the deterioration of working conditions. Previously, workers had a loophole that allowed them to quit even against the wishes of their superiors. To do this, you just had to skip a working day or be late for at least half an hour, which automatically led to dismissal. However, with the entry into force of this law, absenteeism, as well as being late, began to be considered criminal offenses and led not to dismissal, but to corrective labor at the same plant.
When repealed: According to some estimates, more than 3 million people were punished under this law during the 16 years of the existence of this law. Most of them got off with correctional labor at the place of work. In April 1956, the law was repealed.
Law on defective products
The release of low-quality and defective products at enterprises was considered a serious state crime. For the first time, marriage began to be punished in 1933 with the release of the resolution of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars "On liability for the production of low-quality products." Under this ruling, issuing a marriage was threatened with imprisonment for at least five years. True, the responsibility was not primarily assigned to ordinary workers, but not to directors of enterprises, engineers and employees of technical control departments. 
In the summer of 1940, this resolution was clarified by the issuance of a new decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council. In terms of content, it was almost identical to the previous one, but specified the limits of punishment. From now on, negligent workers were threatened with 5 to 8 years in prison for the production of low-quality or incomplete products.
When repealed: The law was repealed in April 1959.
Bachelor's tax
Officially called a tax on bachelors, childless and small families. The tax began to be levied in November 1941. Given the time and circumstances of its appearance, it can be assumed that the introduction of a new tax was supposed to stimulate the birth rate in order to compensate for losses during the war. However, even in those periods when everything was very good with the birth rate, the tax was still not canceled. Another reason for the emergence of a new tax was, apparently, the need to support a huge number of orphans who lost their parents during the war. The tax was planned as an emergency measure, but it turned out to be such a convenient means of replenishing the treasury (in some periods, tax revenues reached 1% of annual budget revenues) that in the end it lasted until the very end of the existence of the USSR.
All Soviet men between the ages of 20 and 45 had to pay 5% of their salary to the state every month until they had a child. Full-time university students were exempt from tax until they reached the age of 25. Women also did not pay tax until they got married. From that moment until the birth of the child, they also deducted 5% of the salary. 
Military personnel, pensioners, persons unable to have children, schizophrenics, epileptics and midgets were exempted from the tax.
Workers and employees deducted 5% of the salary. Collective farmers were put in a more disadvantageous position. Due to the peculiarities of their remuneration, they paid a fixed annual rate of 100 (and later 150) rubles.
Considering that the collective farmers, in principle, earned very little, receiving only a part of the monetary reward (and another part in products) for workdays, this tax was very burdensome. For example, in 1950 collective farms on the territory of the RSFSR received from 127 to 156 rubles per year. This is an average per yard. That is, in fact, the collective farmer had to pay all the remuneration received for the year to pay the tax if he did not have children. At the same time, in the case of the birth of children, he was not exempted from paying it, just the amount was proportionally reduced for the birth of each child, until the appearance of the third. However, it is worth noting that the birth rate was then high, so the tax affected the minimum number of rural residents.
When canceled: in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
There are many strange rules and regulations in the world these days. But some of the laws that were adopted at different times in the Soviet Union, and now cause surprise and amaze with their cruelty.
Trade Prohibition Act
In 1918, having come to power, the Bolsheviks tried, in fact, to monopolize the market. Or rather, even replace the "purchase and sale" with natural exchange. For example, peasants were offered to exchange bread for manufactured goods. At the same time, in return, the peasants had, in fact, nothing to offer: chaos reigned in the country and industry collapsed. This led to the fact that the authorities actually began to forcibly take away the grown products (bread and other goods) from the peasants and distribute them arbitrarily. The peasants, who, of course, did not gain anything from this, severely reduced the number of crops. As a result, in 1921, a wave of a terrible city swept across the country (an already small future crop was destroyed by drought). In the same year, market relations were partially restored.
Euthanasia Law
In May 1922, a note to the 143rd article of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR actually legalized the murder. True, it was noted that it can be committed "at the insistence of the murdered out of a sense of compassion." Yuri Lurie, who suffered from progressive muscular atrophy, proposed to legalize euthanasia. This law lasted, however, only about six months. For security reasons (for fear that this practice would not go beyond the limits), already in November the note on euthanasia was removed from the Criminal Code.
Spikelet law
Another wave of famine that swept across the country as a result of dispossession and collectivization led to the fact that the theft of products from collective farm fields became more frequent. In 1932, Stalin, in order to stop the theft, ordered the introduction of cruel punishments for plunderers of collective property. Theft of state property, to which crops in the fields were equated, was now punishable by death (in the presence of mitigating circumstances - by imprisonment for 10 years or more). At the same time, the volumes of theft for which it was necessary to punish were not registered anywhere. In fact, any person who plucked a spikelet on a collective farm field became a dangerous criminal.
This policy led to the fact that after a couple of years the prisons were overcrowded with prisoners, and in 1936 the cases under this law were reviewed, releasing most of the "criminals" into the wild with the removal of a criminal record.
Law on being late for work
Since the end of the 30s of the XX century, a period of tightening labor legislation began: maternity leave was reduced, the length of the working day was increased. In 1939, being late for work by more than 20 minutes was punishable by dismissal from work. And in 1940, such a delay began to be equated with absenteeism and punished by labor work for six months with a quarter of the salary withheld in favor of the state treasury. In fact, a person who was late for work or “skipped” a working day without a good reason (illness of the employee himself or his child, force majeure circumstances like a fire) continued to work in his usual place, only he received less money for his work. But this was not limited to: if a repeated delay or absenteeism occurred during corrective labor, the remaining “term” of the offender was already in custody.
By the way, according to this law, a person also could not change jobs without the permission of the director. Such "AWOL" was punishable by imprisonment for up to 4 months.
This cruel law was repealed only in 1956.
foreign law
And, of course, one of the most cruel laws of the Soviet era is the law on escaping abroad. Starting in 1935, escaping the country began to be equated with treason. Punished cruelly - a would-be fugitive, who for some reason failed to complete his plan, but fell into the hands of the authorities, was sentenced to death. Close relatives also fell “under distribution”: those who knew about the escape attempt, but did not report it, were imprisoned for 5-10 years, their property was confiscated, while those who were not aware of the impending escape were “just” exiled to Siberia, from where it was possible to return only after 5 years. Such a measure, according to the authorities, was supposed to stop attempts to escape: after all, even if the fugitive managed to hide abroad, the punishment fell on his family. True, as we know, this did not stop everyone and not always.
Almost until the very collapse of the Soviet Union, escaping “over the hill” was equated with a serious crime, with the only caveat that during the “thaw” the law was slightly adjusted: the death penalty for escaping was abolished, relatives were also no longer punished.
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In some countries, in order to get a few years in prison, it is not necessary to rob or kill someone. There are seemingly stupid laws in the world, for the violation of which severe punishment is provided.
1. In Canada, it is illegal to post election results on Facebook and Twitter before the exit polls have stopped. It's a memory of a law from 1938 that was meant for journalists working in the polls, but now applies to people using social media. In April 2011, Canadian officials warned social media users that they must enforce this and other laws during the May 2, 2011 elections. Failure to comply could result in five years in prison and a $25,000 fine. All over the world - and even in the West - people face harsh, sometimes unusual punishments for their actions. Let's find out which ones.
2. Growing or importing tobacco or smoking in public places is illegal in Bhutan. In January 2011, the nation known for its conservatism passed a law punishing people who smuggle tobacco products with up to three years in prison. As of April 2011, two people are already serving time for such a crime - including a Buddhist monk.
3. In January 2011, Chinese authorities sentenced a farmer to life in prison and fined him $302,000 for using fake military license plates to evade a $560,000 highway toll from 2008 to 2009. But the immediate public outcry that followed—during which many noted that the penalties for murder and rape were much lighter—convinced officials to start a new trial.
4. In February 2011, Bingu Wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, reportedly passed a law that punishes gassing in public places, with the rationale that such a law would promote “citizen discipline and self-control.” The law also punishes duels. In addition, those who "pretend to be fortune-tellers, disturb peace in cemeteries, or offend a woman's sense of decency" are subject to punishment.
5. Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein faced the prospect of 40 lashes made of camel hair for wearing "indecent" clothing while in a restaurant. Her story in the West has become a famous lawsuit. She was ultimately forced to simply pay a fine, which she also refused to pay, but was released when the Union of Journalists paid for her. In the latest news - a 16-year-old Christian girl was sentenced to 50 lashes for wearing a skirt that was too short - she showed her knees.
6. For making fun of the King of Thailand or his photograph, you go to jail for fifteen years for insulting the monarchy.
7. If you were a tailor living under the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan, you would get jail time for taking measurements from female customers. If you were a woman who used nail polish, your fingers would be cut off.
8. Singapore is notorious for high fines for everything from chewing gum to not flushing the toilet. If you bring the foul-smelling durian fruit (pictured) on public transport, you will have to pay a $3,500 fine. Overstayed your visa? You will be beaten with rods, rattan sticks four feet long and half an inch thick, soaked in water.
9. Until recently in Shandong Province, if you used the Internet too much, you could be sent to a clinic where they would be treated with electric shock. The Ministry of Health repealed this law in July 2009.
10. Don't expect sympathy or understanding if you were raped in Saudi Arabia. In this case, it is you who will most likely go to court. In 2007, a gang rape victim was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for violating the law on keeping women in a male society if the men were not close relatives. (Her rapists, at the same time, were originally sentenced to only 10 months.)
11. Do you like to ride with the breeze? Just not in Kansas. Tires screeching on pavement can land you in jail for 30 days.
12. If you stick a postage stamp with a picture of Queen Elizabeth on an envelope upside down in the UK, you can be charged with treason and go to jail.
13. And in Denmark you will be arrested for wearing a mask in public places. The law was adopted so that the authorities had the opportunity to consider who exactly goes to protests.
14. If you hold hands or kiss in public in Malaysia, you risk being jailed for a year.
15. In China, corporate responsibility means taking full responsibility for your company's actions - literally. In the event of fraud, bribery, or other abuse, you risk a death sentence, like the CEO who was sentenced to death in 2007 for a $390 million scam - he lured the gullible with a fake giant ant farming program
One of the inveterate remnants of the times of "militant atheism", left as a legacy from the USSR, is the general indifference of Russians to religion, and even open disregard for religious values. However, there are 13 countries in the world where open demonstration of one's atheistic views is punishable by death. These are mainly Islamic states.
Maldives.
According to the constitution of the Republic of Maldives, Islam is a state religion and no other religion is provided for in it, as well as the right to profess another religion in general. Renunciation of religion or conversion to another is punishable by death. The last execution took place in 1953. It is important to remember that it is strictly forbidden to import objects of a cult other than Islam into the islands.
Saudi Arabia
It also does not provide for any freedom of religion and there is no separation of the state from religion.
It also does not provide for any freedom of religion and there is no separation of the state from religion. Any blasphemy or apostasy is punished severely. A specially created religious police - mutawwa strictly monitors that Sharia norms are not violated anywhere. The reason for the arrest may be inappropriate clothing, drinking alcohol, being in the same car a man and a woman who are not married or related.
Afghanistan
The Afghan constitution unequivocally defines Islam as a folk religion. The law severely restricts religious freedom and provides severe punishments for violations of Sharia norms, and execution by hanging is provided for apostasy and insulting the Prophet.
Somalia
Due to the lack of a strong central authority, Sharia is deeply rooted in Somalia, which plays the role of the basic law of this country and restricts religious freedoms. An interim constitution was adopted in 2012, formally providing for some religious freedoms, but nothing has changed in practice.
Iran
There is no freedom of religion in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Departure or change of religion, blasphemy are punishable by death. The sentence is carried out without delay.
Pakistan
In Pakistan, the constitution and other laws limit the freedom of religion, and the authorities strictly monitor this. Blasphemy is especially harsh. Very often, death sentences are carried out on the basis of false denunciations. When obtaining a Pakistani passport, it is imperative to declare your religious affiliation. Her absence is a crime.
Yemen
The Yemeni constitution defines Islam as the state religion and Sharia as the source of law. Departure from religion is punishable by death. Before the sentence is carried out, the guilty person is given a certain period to repent and return to Islam.
Niger
The Nigerian constitution guarantees freedom of religion (like freedom of speech, etc.), but this right is often violated at all levels. Especially terrorist groups operating throughout the country, the military, police, etc.
Malaysia
The Malaysian constitution is no less democratic than the constitutions of European countries. However, by-laws restrict freedom of religion. Departure from the faith is punishable by death, and blasphemy or insult to Islam - by imprisonment.
Qatar
Islam is the state religion in Qatar. All other religions except Christianity, Judaism and Islam are severely persecuted, as is conversion from one religion to another. Blasphemy is punishable by a prison term of 7 years.
Sudan
The Sudanese constitution provides for some religious freedoms, but atheism, blasphemy, and marriages with non-Christians are strictly prohibited there. Leaving Islam is punishable by death. A Muslim can marry a Christian or a Jew, but a Muslim woman can only marry a Muslim.
Mauritania
In Mauritania, religious law is limited by Islam and Sharia. A citizen of this country cannot profess a religion other than Islam. And refusal is punishable by death. 3 days are given to change the decision.
United Arab Emirates
The constitution declares Islam the state religion in all emirates, and citizens are called Muslims. The law prohibits leaving a religion or changing it. The strictest emirate is Shariyeh. It is strictly forbidden for men to wear shorts and jewelry. There is a prison term for this.
Surprisingly, even in the 21st century, in some countries, beating and humiliating women is not prohibited and often even legalized. Moreover, for some societies it is a matter of honor to kill a wife.
In order to save the "honor of the family", women are beheaded, burned, stoned, cut, electrocuted, strangled and buried alive - these shameful and barbaric customs flourish in the 21st century in Islamic countries. Women's activists in the Middle East and Southwest Asia estimate that there are at least 20,000 such murders a year.
For example, not so long ago, a video spread around the world, as in Saudi Arabia, a husband beheaded his wife in front of the police. Thus, her husband punished her for confirming his involvement in the murder of her seven-year-old daughter.
The condemned woman was placed on her knees in front of the crowd and had her head cut off with a saber in front of the police and the cheering crowd. Whether the woman was granted protection is unknown.
Human rights activists say outright that Saudi Arabia's gender policy is a crime against humanity and needs to be intervened by the international community.
The victim of such a murder may be a woman who has expressed a desire to get a divorce or refuses to marry. If incest occurred during rape, then the responsibility for the most part lies with the woman. It is generally accepted that she must protect her honor, even at the cost of her own life. If the woman is still alive, then she is considered guilty, because she did not prevent the deprivation of her honor.
There are well-known cases when men raped their own daughters, and then, when they became pregnant, they killed them "for the honor of the family." The father and grandfather of 16-year-old Turkish woman Medine Mehmi in the province of Adiyaman buried her alive in the ground for her friendship with the guys. Her body was found 40 days later, in a sitting position with her hands tied.
13-year-old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was buried up to her neck in Somalia in 2008 in front of a crowd of thousands. 50 men threw stones at her "for adultery." After 10 minutes, they dug her up, found that she was still alive, and returned her to the pit to be stoned again. What is her crime? She was raped by three men, and her relatives, with fatal consequences, decided to report this to the leaders of the Al-Shabaab armed group that rules the area.
In Pakistan, near Daharka, the body of a woman was found in an irrigation ditch, who was killed by relatives "out of honor" at the moment when she gave birth to her second child. Before she was hacked to death with an ax, her ears and lips were cut off. On a pile of her clothes lay the corpse of her first baby, the body of the newborn remained in the womb, but the head was already sticking out. A Muslim cleric refused to perform a funeral ceremony for "a cursed woman and her illegitimate children."
In August 2008, five women were brutally murdered by their fellow tribesmen for "crimes of honor" in Balochistan for choosing their own husbands. Three of them - Hameeda, Raheema and Fauzia - were teenage girls. They were severely beaten, shot, half-dead thrown into a ditch and pelted with stones and earth. When two elderly women, aged 38 and 45, protested against this, they suffered the same fate. Following the assassination, Pakistani MP Israrullah Zehri said such killings are centuries old and he will defend them.
Very often, women are dealt with with acid.
Independent media reported in 2001 the story of Fakhra Khar. Her husband Bilal Khar poured acid on her face after she left him. The acid burned her hair, ears, chest, and caused her lips to coalesce.
However, besides direct murders and mutilations in the world, there are many other "opportunities" to infringe on women.
In El Salvador Abortion is prohibited under any circumstances, even in cases of rape, fetal anomaly or threat to the woman's life. Worse, miscarriage or stillbirth can also qualify as abortion or homicide, for which women serve decades in prison.
In India there is a law according to which any sexual relations of spouses are not considered rape if the spouse has reached the age of 15. However, in Singapore, a similar law allows a relationship with a spouse over 13 years old. In the Bahamas, a girl must reach at least fourteen years of age.
Malta and Lebanon. In such countries, kidnapping ceases to be illegal if the perpetrator marries his victim before a conviction is reached.
In its turn, in Nigeria there are no less terrible laws, according to which the beating of a spouse for "educational purposes" or if she disobeyed and did not obey the will of her husband, is considered completely legal. Also, the beating of a child by a teacher for disobedience, violation of discipline and failure to follow instructions, or punishment by the owner of servants and maids hired to work, is not considered an illegal act.
According to the law passed in Tunisia, a man in a family receives exactly twice as much inheritance as the weaker sex in the same family. If in a family two sisters and a brother receive an inheritance, then the brother gets half, and the sisters equally divide the remaining share of the inheritance among themselves.
Violation of laws against women or infringement of their rights in some countries comes to the point that the spouse independently chooses a profession for his wife and limits her ability to work in any other jobs, carry out financial transactions and conduct business activities.
IN Yemen it is believed that the wife is obliged to work in the house where the spouses live, and in everything to obey the will of her husband. In addition, there is a law prohibiting a spouse from leaving the house without the express permission of her husband without a good reason. It is only allowed to leave without permission due to the care of elderly parents, if these are the only relatives. The same law allows marital rape.
