----- Original Message ----- From: "Ami Isseroff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MEWDIALOG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MewNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: [ShomerNet] Pakistan Tribe Orders Teen Rape
> Pakistan Tribe Orders Teen Rape > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/02/world/main514039.shtml > > (AP) A Pakistani tribal council ordered an 18-year-old girl to be gang-raped in order to punish her family after her > brother was seen walking with a girl from a higher-class tribe, police said Tuesday. > > The private Human Rights Commission of Pakistan demanded that all those involved in the rape, which took place June 22 > in the village of Meerwala in southern Punjab province, be punished. > > Police said the victim's father had filed criminal charges against the four men involved in the case. Police said they > picked up eight relatives of the suspects to pressure the perpetrators into surrendering. > > "We will spare no efforts to do justice" for the victim, police official Malik Saeed said. > > According to the victim, the Mastoi tribe demanded punishment after her 11-year-old brother was seen walking > unchaperoned with a Mastoi girl in a deserted part of the village. The boy and his sister are from the lower class Gujar > tribe. > > The Mastoi tribe called a meeting of the tribal council, which ordered the girl to be raped to avenge their tribal > honor. The teen-ager said she was taken to a hut and assaulted as hundreds of Mastois stood outside laughing and > cheering. > > Pakistan has a tradition of tribal justice in which crimes or affronts to dignity are punished outside the framework of > Pakistani law. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has demanded an end to punishments by tribal councils. > > Kamla Hayyat, of the commission, said the group will send a fact-finding mission to the victim's village to determine > what happened and provide help to her. > > "The increasing incidents of terrible atrocities against women are a terrible reflection on the state of society and the > status of women within it," commission chairman Afrasiab Khattak said in a statement. > > Last month, an Islamic court overturned the conviction of a woman who was to be stoned to death for adultery. Zufran > Bibi, 28, said she was raped and appealed her early May conviction in the conservative North West Frontier Province. > > Her case prompted demonstrations and protests by hundreds of civil and women's-rights groups nationwide. > > > > -----------------------------------------~-~> > ShomerNet changes via email: > Switch to digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Switch to normal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Stop receiving mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Permanently unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------_-> > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
