EGYPT'S parliament has denied reports last week that husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives.

The subject grabbed headlines across the world after Egypt's state-owned newspaper Al Ahram ran an article stating that Mervat el-Tallawy, the head of Egypt's National Council for Women, had complained the country's parliament was considering a piece of legislation sponsored by Islamists to allow men to have sex with their wives after their death.



The article also highlighted the minimum age of marriage would be lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights of getting education and employment.

It said Egypt's National Council for Women was campaigning against the changes, saying that 'marginalising and undermining the status of women would negatively affect the country's human development'.

But the Christian Science Monitor has reported that while the NCW was concerned about legislation that may harm the position of women in Egypt, there was never any "sex after death law" under consideration, let alone one she complained about.

Egypt's Parliament Secretary Sami Mahran was also quoted as saying no such piece of legislation ever existed.



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Originally published as Sex with dead wives legislation denied