In this file photo taken March 3, 2005, Pakistan Mukhtar Mai rape victim Weeps at Multan, Pakistan. The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday released five men accused in the rape by a village Council in 2002, leaving only one of the 14 original suspects in prison. Khalid Tanveer/Associated PressThe Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday released five men accused in the infamous rape of a woman under the orders of a Board of village in 2002, angering the victims and human rights groups. The decision suggested that one of the 14 original suspects in prison.
Mukhtar Mai was assaulted after the Council in his village in the province of Punjab ordered be raped as punishment for the case of suspected his old brother 13 years with a woman of a higher caste. It has attracted global sympathy and much international media coverage by the custom devaluation and to speak of his test.
Fourteen men were originally charged in the case, but a lower court acquitted eight. In 2005, a Court of Appeal acquitted five of the six other defendants, saying that the statements of the witnesses contradict the case of prosecutions.
The Supreme Court confirmed this decision Thursday, said the defence counsel Malik Saleem. He also confirmed that the conviction of life at the sixth man.
May, stated that she would not request another review of the case.
"I fear that these 13 people go back to my village and interfere with my family and I," may told Associated Press. "I've lost faith in the courts, and now I leave my case to the Court of God." I am sure that God will punish those who I molested. ?
Rights activists condemned the decision, saying: he left still more precarious women.
"It is a setback for Mukhtar Mai, the broader fight to end violence against women and the cause of justice independent and respectful of the rights in Pakistan," Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
Pakistan's criminal justice system has a very low conviction, in large part because the police, prosecutors and judges are underequipped, overloaded, corrupt and beholden to the powerful and politically connected rich in neighbourhoods where they are used. The result is that many people turn to the village councils of justice based on tribal traditions. That they sometimes ask women beaten or killed.
May make public decision introduces an international star on the struggles of women in Pakistan and earned her many accolades. She was named woman of the year Glamour magazine and now runs a school in his village of Meerwala.
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