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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.........
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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
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