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 enshrined in the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), is said to encompass the right to be free from domestic violence and rape (including marital rape). Singapore has not ratified the CAT and thus is not legally bound to give effect to the Convention’s prohibition against torture in its domestic laws. It has been suggested that legal immunities to marital rape infringes the right to security of the person, which is protected by Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as well as Article 9 of the International Covenant on