Women's Rights Activists Urge Review of Sentence for Malawi 'Hyena'

Women’s rights campaigners say an HIV-infected Malawi man who had unprotected sex with girls as part of a traditional custom received a sentence that was too lenient, and they are calling on the High Court to review the lower- court decision. Eric Aniva is known in his community as a "hyena," the traditional title given to a man paid by widows to "sexually cleanse" them after the deaths of their husbands and by families to have sex with underage girls to mark their...

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