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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Woman who refuses sex is not ‘at fault’ in divorce in France, court rules

The European court of human rights building in Strasbourg
The European court of human rights in Strasbourg held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of the woman’s right to respect for private and family life. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters

A woman who refuses to have sex with her husband should not be considered “at fault” by courts in the event of divorce, Europe’s highest human rights court has said, condemning France.

The European court of human rights (ECHR) sided on Thursday with a 69-year-old French woman whose husband had obtained a divorce on the grounds that she was the only person at fault because she had stopped having sexual relations with him.

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