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Swedish paedophile to remain in Cambodian jail

The 63-year-old Swedish man convicted for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, will serve his 6.5 year sentence after a Cambodian court confirmed his conviction.

The Swede was convicted and sentenced by the court in Phnomh Penh for having abused the three boys, including his own adopted son.

The man claimed in an interview with the Svenska Dagbladet daily this week that he expected to be freed by the court after having paid out $11,000 in bribes.

The newspaper reported that its article was presented in the court hearing at which the man retracted his claims.

“The judge wondered about the circumstances and statements from the accused, but he denied it today. But it was something which the court paid attention to,” said Annethe Ahlenius, the Swedish police officer following the proceedings, to the newspaper.

The Swede has been in custody since he was arrested in May last year after police and social services had been tracking him for three years.

During his time in custody the man has had daily contact with his son, who had previously testified against his father regarding sustained abuse, but changed his story at Friday’s hearing.

But the court found the boy’s amended stable to be unreliable and confirmed the conviction and sentence served in January against his adoptive father.

The 63-year-old retains the right to appeal the judgement, which ends Swedish police involvement in the issue.

“If the man has been convicted in Cambodia then we can not do anything. You can’t try someone for the same offence in two different countries,” said Lisbeth Tolfes, detective inspector at the National Criminal Investigation Department (Rikskriminalen) to news agency TT.

The 63-year-old has been previously convicted for sexual offences against children in Sweden.

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France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had ‘marital duty’ to have sex with husband

A case has been brought against France at the European Court of Human Rights by a woman who lost a divorce case after judges ruled against her because she refused to have sex with her husband.

France taken to European Court over divorce ruling that woman had 'marital duty' to have sex with husband
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The woman, who has not been named, has brought the case with the backing of two French feminist groups, arguing that the French court ruling contravened human rights legislation by “interference in private life” and “violation of physical integrity”.

It comes after a ruling in the Appeals Court in Versailles which pronounced a fault divorce in 2019 because of her refusal to have sex with her husband.

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The court ruled that the facts of the case “established by the admission of the wife, constitute a serious and renewed violation of the duties and obligations of marriage making intolerable the maintenance of a shared life”.

Feminist groups Fondation des femmes (Women’s Foundation) and Collectif fĂ©ministe contre le viol (Feminist Collective against Rape) have backed her appeal, deploring the fact that French justice “continues to impose the marital duty” and “thus denying the right of women to consent or not to sexual relations”.

“Marriage is not and should not be a sexual servitude,” the joint statement says, pointing out that in 47 percent of the 94,000 recorded rapes and attempted rapes per year, the aggressor is the spouse or ex-spouse of the victim.

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