Pakistan gang-rape victim files appeal

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Sat Mar-26-05 07:54 AM
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Pakistan gang-rape victim files appeal

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5630938

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The victim of a notorious gang-rape in Pakistan has filed an appeal with country's top court against the acquittal of five of the six men convicted of the crime.

Mukhtaran Mai, who was raped in 2002 on orders of a village council, filed the appeal on Saturday with the Supreme Court in Islamabad against the March 3 ruling by a provincial high court.

Mai's rape provoked an outcry in Pakistan and focused international attention on the plight of women in rural Pakistan after she took the rare step of going public about her ordeal.

An anti-terrorism court sentenced six men to death in July 2002 for the attack -- four for carrying out rape and two who sat on the village council.

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Triana

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Sat Mar-26-05 08:00 AM
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1. What a blow to this poor woman..

...It was so great that she won initially, and she got a lot of support for building the girls school. I'm glad she's not giving up! She is the picture of courage.

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Sat Mar-26-05 08:07 AM
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2. absolutely

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Mist

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Sat Mar-26-05 08:31 AM
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3. Instead of cringing and hiding, she's

putting the blame and attention where they belong. This takes incredible courage and determination in Pakistan.

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