Wojciech Jaruzelski had sent Eugeniusz Molczyk to confer with Vice President George H. W. Bush and Bush had agreed with Molczyk that martial law was the lesser of two evils. Whether this meeting with the American vice president occurred is disputed. While it is erroneously cited, Harvard historian Mark Kramer has pointed out that no documents support Jaruzelski's claim. Jaruzelski was chiefly responsible for the imposition of martial law in Poland on 13 December 1981 in an attempt to crush the pro-democracy movements, which included Solidarity, the first non-Communist trade union in Warsaw Pact history. Subsequent years saw his government and its
Marital rape immunity in Singapore marital rape immunity will be repealed, some believe that Singapore’s response at the 2016 UPR indicates that the abolition of the marital rape immunity is forthcoming.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