Martial law in Poland martial law had been imposed in clear violation of the country's constitution which had authorized the executive to declare martial law only between parliamentary sessions (at other times the decision was to be taken by the Sejm). However, the Sejm had been in session at the time when martial law was instituted. In 1992 the Sejm declared the 1981 imposition of martial law to be unlawful and unconstitutional. The instigators of the martial law, such as Wojciech Jaruzelski, argue that the army crackdown rescued Poland from a possibly disastrous military intervention of the Soviet Union, East Germany, and other Warsaw
Marital rape immunity in Singapore marital rape immunity will be repealed, some believe that Singapore’s response at the 2016 UPR indicates that the abolition of the marital rape immunity is forthcoming. In April 2017, then Minister of Social and Family Development, Mr Tan Chuan-Jin confirmed in Parliament that review of the marital rape immunity is underway. To this end, he expressed the view that “married women should have the same access to protection as unmarried women” and “although married persons have conjugal rights over each other, such rights should be exercised within reasonable behaviour”. Marital rape, and by extension legal immunities to marital rape, are