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An activist from the Lebanese NGO Abaad (Dimensions), a resource centre for gender equality, dressed as a bride and wearing bandages stands in a golden cage during a protest near the parliament in downtown Beirut on March 15, 2017, as MPs are debating a vote against article 522 in the Lebanese penal code. The article shields rapists from prosecution on the condition that they marry their victim, a phenomenon that is still practised in the country, especially among conservative families whose chief aim is to preserve the family's so-called “honour”. (Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP Photo)
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