Iraqi Kurdistan To Outlaw Polygamy
Awene is a Sulaimaniyah-based independent newspaper issued weekly by the Awene Company.
Iraqi Kurdistan To Outlaw Polygamy
Awene is a Sulaimaniyah-based independent newspaper issued weekly by the Awene Company.
The Iraqi Kurdistan government has submitted a draft law to the Kurdish parliament banning polygamy. If it is ratified by parliament, men who marry more than one woman face three years in prison and a 1,400 US dollar fine. The law doesn’t apply to men whose wives have a long-term illness, are infertile or whose wives left them more than two years ago. The Islamic slate in the Kurdish parliament is opposed to the law.
