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World Service,2 mins

Pardon For Woman Who Killed Husband

Newsday

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French President Francois Hollande has freed a woman who was jailed for killing her husband who had abused her and her children. We hear from Marie Allibert, from the feminist group, Osez le Féminisme, which means Dare To Be Feminist. <Picture: Jacqueline Sauvage's husband was a violent alcoholic who, she said, had raped and beaten her and her daughters for decades. She also said he had abused their son, who killed himself the day before she shot him. Credit: EPA>

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