High-profile gang-rape Victim to appeal acquittals in Pakistan's ...

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By Azka Jameel - Pakistan Times Staff Correspondent / PT Monitoring Desk

ISLAMABAD: The victim of a high-profile gang rape in Pakistan said Saturday she will file an appeal with the Supreme Court against Thursday's acquittal of five men who had earlier been sentenced to death for the attack. <snip>

Mai was raped for more than an hour in the village of Meerwala in Punjab province in June 2002, as punishment for her brother's alleged affair with a woman of a powerful rival clan. <snip>

Mai's appeal against the acquittal of the eight was also rejected by court on Thursday.

After the rape, Mai embarked on a mission to improve girls' education in Pakistan, where 72 percent of women are illiterate, using her compensation money to set up her district's first ever school for girls.

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