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06-15-2005, 08:24 PM
Pakistan Lifts Travel Ban on Rape Victim (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423724/posts)
New York Times ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/international/middleeast/15cnd-pakistan.html?ei=5094&en=b293841d56b2dc2b&hp=&ex=1118894400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print) | 6/15/05 | SALMAN MASOOD
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 15 - Pakistan lifted today a travel restriction on Mukhtar Mai, the woman who was gang-raped in 2002 on the orders of a village council to punish an act attributed to her brother.
Mukhtar Mai, also known as Mukhtaran Bibi, had been scheduled to travel to the United States last week at the invitation of Amnesty International and other human rights groups.
But her name turned up on the government roster of people barred from traveling abroad. The travel restriction met with bitter protests and condemnation by human rights advocates.
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The gang-rape of Ms. Mukhtar, now in her early 30's, was ordered in June 2002 by a council in Meerwala, a dusty farming village in the southern part of Punjab Province.
The rape was decreed as a punishment after her younger brother was accused of having illicit sexual relations with a woman of a rival tribe, the Mastoi.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/international/middleeast/15cnd-pakistan.html?ei=5094&en=b293841d56b2dc2b&hp=&ex=1118894400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print) ...
New York Times ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/international/middleeast/15cnd-pakistan.html?ei=5094&en=b293841d56b2dc2b&hp=&ex=1118894400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print) | 6/15/05 | SALMAN MASOOD
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 15 - Pakistan lifted today a travel restriction on Mukhtar Mai, the woman who was gang-raped in 2002 on the orders of a village council to punish an act attributed to her brother.
Mukhtar Mai, also known as Mukhtaran Bibi, had been scheduled to travel to the United States last week at the invitation of Amnesty International and other human rights groups.
But her name turned up on the government roster of people barred from traveling abroad. The travel restriction met with bitter protests and condemnation by human rights advocates.
~snip~
The gang-rape of Ms. Mukhtar, now in her early 30's, was ordered in June 2002 by a council in Meerwala, a dusty farming village in the southern part of Punjab Province.
The rape was decreed as a punishment after her younger brother was accused of having illicit sexual relations with a woman of a rival tribe, the Mastoi.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/international/middleeast/15cnd-pakistan.html?ei=5094&en=b293841d56b2dc2b&hp=&ex=1118894400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print) ...