Kataeb Party MP Elie Marouni said on Saturday “his party believes that the crime of rape is the sole responsibility of the criminal rapist.”
Marouni, who suggested earlier this week that women were sometimes to blame for their own rape, rejected to hold the rape victim responsible and refused to give the rapist an excuse for his crime.
"Rape is one of the worst crimes committed against any human," he said in a press conference.
Remarks made by the MP earlier this week caused uproar among activists.
“There are certain places, and certain times where [we must ask] what role women play in leading men to rape,” Marouni told a conference organized Wednesday by the Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering at the Zouk Mikael Municipality.
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