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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-acid-attacks-20120529,0,2781263.story?page=2&track=lat-pick - FULL ARTICLE

 

PAKISTAN - LAW TOUGHER AGAINST ACID ATTACKS BUT ACID VIOLENCE CONTINUES - CALL FOR PREVENTION, JUSTICE & DATA

 

May 29, 2012 - One little girl whose face was seared away wishes to die or turn back time. Her attackers are fined a few thousand dollars and left to walk free.........

 

A law enacted in December has established tougher penalties for acid attack convictions: from 14 years in jail to lifetime imprisonment, and a fine of up to $11,000 — a large sum for most Pakistanis. And yet every week, victims show up in emergency rooms nationwide, their faces and bodies horribly scarred.

No database exists that catalogs acid attacks in Pakistan, but the Acid Survivors Foundation, a Pakistani advocacy group for victims, estimates that 150 occur each year. The majority of the victims are women, and attacks are often an escalation of domestic violence........

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/acid-attack-survivor-pakistan-photo.html - March 28, 2012

 

Fakhra Younus

Every day on World Now we choose a striking photo from around the world. Today we picked these jarring side-by-side shots of a Pakistani woman who suffered an acid attack and killed herself years later. Fakhra Younus, who was allegedly attacked by her estranged husband and underwent more than three dozen surgeries, jumped off of a building in Rome earlier this month, the Associated Press reported. Younus claimed that her then-husband poured acid on her while she was sleeping, angry that she had left him.