March 8, 2008
Licence to lie for Italian Woman
This is wild and though only remotely related to cell phones, it is nonetheless.
Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour. The BBC reports.
"The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.
The appeal court did not agree that she had broken the law.
... The Court of Cassation, which is largely staffed by elderly male appeal judges, has in the past issued a number of controversial judgements.
It once gave a ruling, later rescinded after protests from women's groups, that a woman could not be raped by definition if she was wearing tight jeans, since the jeans could only be removed with her consent. "
It said bending the truth was justified to conceal extra-marital relationships."
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