Four in Pakistan gang rape case freed

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5603905

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Four men convicted in a notorious gang-rape case that has
ignited legal controversy in Pakistan have been released from prison until they appear
before the country's Supreme Court, a prison official has said.

The gang rape of Mukhtaran Mai on the orders of a village council nearly three years
ago provoked an outcry in Pakistan and drew international attention to the plight of
women in the country after she went public about her ordeal.

Four men were sentenced to death for the rape along with two members of the council
for ordering it.

But a high court in the central city of Multan overturned that decision on March 3,
acquitting five of the six due to lack of evidence and commuting the death sentence of the
sixth to life imprisonment.

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[leftynyc]

1. So when are we going to liberate the women

of Pakistan (our pals)? How about the women in Saudi Arabia (also our pals)?

[MasonJar]

2. We have done such a stellar job in Iraq (where women had wes-

tern-style capabilities already and are now afraid to go to college) and Afghanistan (where young girl-type students are murdered.) By all means Georgie Porgie kiss those girls (in Pakistan) and watch them cry. What an abomination! From death to freedom in one small step.