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Row over French bogus virgin case
By Emma Jane Kirby
BBC News, Paris
The justice ministry said the ruling was about dishonesty, not religion
France's ruling UMP party has opposed a French court's decision to annul a marriage between two Muslims because the wife lied about being a virgin.
The Lille court's decision has also angered feminists who say it amounts to a fatwa against women's liberty.
The court granted the man's request for an annulment after ruling that he had been tricked into a marriage.
His partner's virginity was a determining factor in his decision to wed her, it ruled.
Feminists angered
It is understood that the husband, an engineer in his thirties, married the trainee nurse in the summer of 2006, having been assured by her that she had never previously had a boyfriend.
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