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PAKISTAN - UPDATE ON GANG
RAPE CASE OF MUKHTAR MAI
Website indicates suggest support
actions for Mukhtar Mai.
In
2002, 14 men from the dominant Mastoi tribe in Meeranwalla, Pakistan
volunteered to rape Ms Mukhtar Mai as a way to settle a score after her
12-year-old brother Abdul Shakoor was seen walking with a Mastoi girl. The
decision on retribution had been taken by a village court to preserve tribal
honour. The jirga, or council of village elders, summoned Ms Mai to apologise for
her brother's sexual misdeed. When she apologised, they gang-raped her anyway.
After the atrocity was carried out, Ms Mai was paraded naked before hundreds of onlookers. Finally, her father covered her with a shawl and took her home.
UPDATE ON CASE OF MUKHTAR MAI
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS HEARING
OF CASE INDEFINITELY
STRATEGY KEEPS RAPISTS OF MUKHTAR
MAI IN JAIL
Update on: Pakistan:
Interference in the case of Mukhtar Mai
12/02/2009: Mukhtar Mai's council, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, had moved an
application for adjournment, which was considered the best course of action in
the current circumstances. With no right to a further appeal, Mai's rapists
will stay in jail. However, the threat to the safety of Mukhtar Mai, and her
family, from those implicated in the interference in her case remains.
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PAKISTAN - PHOTO SERIES
WOMEN GIVING HOPE TO WOMEN IN
PAKISTAN
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Pakistan - Rape Victim Becomes Gender Advocate on Violence,
Education +
In 2002, a Pakistani teenager from the rural
After such a punishment, it is traditional for a girl to commit suicide, but
Mukhtaran Mai refused to bow down to the illegal action of the council and
tribesmen. With the support of her family, a local imam who had denounced the
rape, and a journalist, she took her rapists to court, and she won.
After her victory, she has continued to be outspoken on the issue of women's
rights in her home country, even in the face of harassment. She founded two
schools in Meerwala with money awarded to her by the Pakistani government in
reparation for her rape, and later founded the Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare
Organization, which provides education for girls and shelter for victims of
domestic abuse and other violence.
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