[Flame Of Liberty]

NINE years after being gang-raped on the orders of a village council, Mukhtaran Mai's struggle for justice ended on Thursday when Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered five of the six accused to be freed.

This [verdict] shows that you can commit any crime, even in front of 100 people, and get away with it,'' said Fouzia Saeed, a women's rights activist. ''Every day something like this is happening in Pakistan … The jirgas [village assemblies] will be encouraged by this verdict.''
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recorded 791 honour killings of women in 2010; at least 26 of the women were raped or gang-raped before being killed.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/fear-...422-1drha.html


Mai's ordeal began after a more powerful clan accused her 13-year-old brother of having sex with one of its young women.

The woman's brother, Khaliq, and two other men then sodomised him in a sugarcane field.

There appears to be no basis for the original accusation.

A tribal council was assembled from Khaliq's clan, which ordered that Mai be punished for her brother's illicit sex by being raped, on the basis of eye-for-an-eye justice. Khaliq forced Mai into a stable at gunpoint, where he and other clan members raped her.

She then was paraded naked around the village.


http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/m...-1226043489665


Absolutely sickening what goes on in certain parts of the world on a daily basis.