History of Poland (1945–1989) of Brezhnev, there could be no peaceful resolution to the situation that developed. The Soviets now expressed a preference for the conflict to be resolved by the Polish authorities, but Poland, according to Karol Modzelewski, was lucky to avoid a carnage of foreign intervention. Others, including the historian Antoni Dudek, feel that there was no sufficient justification for the imposition of martial law that followed. On 13 December 1981, claiming that the country was on the verge of economic and civil breakdown and alleging a danger of Soviet intervention, General Wojciech Jaruzelski began a crack-down on Solidarity. Martial law was
Marital rape immunity in Singapore 2011. It was noted that this recommendation did not enjoy the support of the Singapore Government. In the Stakeholder’s Report to the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, a joint submission by several non-governmental organisations also called for the partial immunity for marital rape to be repealed. At Singapore’s UPR in 2016, the need for the abolition of the marital rape immunity was reiterated. In response, Ambassador-at-Large Chan Heng Chee noted that Singapore “would actively review the need to repeal the marital rape immunity”. While no definitive answer has been given to the question of whether or when the