Egypt to permit men to have sexual relations with their dead wives?

When I was in my first year of law school in 1980-81, we read a case called United States v. Thomas. The case was about two military men who rape a woman who turns out to have been dead. They are convicted because they had criminal intent. I thought of that case (and of a rather funny line that resulted from it in my law school class - which I will not repeat) when I read this story.In Egypt, if