I haven’t found an article on Mukhtar Mai where they site evidence against the accused. I assume court will be filled with witnesses but other than that on what ground did the high court decided to release the 12? Just because the lazy prosecutors couldn’t come up with different charges? And if all 12 were involved in rape or were they by standers/collaborators or was anyone from the ‘girga’ also put in jail?
Here is the history I found on BBC. 14 people were originally charged. 6 were given death sentences and 8 acquitted. Then high court acquitted 5 more and reduce the death for the last one to life imprisonment. Due to public pressure, the 12 originally charged were arrested again and haven’t been released since. And now supreme court will hear the case.
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enough with mai 
. Thi is the 7th thread on that woman in 2 days. Give it a rest already.
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Nothing about the trials or evidence, sry, but some about how many there have been up to Oct 2004
Mukhtar Mai
Challenging a Tribal Code of “Honor”
BY ASMA JAHANGIR
It is a measure of just how terrible what happened to Mukhtar Mai was that news of the attack on her sent shock waves across Pakistan, where sexual assault and violence against women is commonplace. Mai, a 30-year-old woman who lives in the remote hamlet of Meerwala, was brutally and publicly gang-raped in June 2002 by four volunteers on the orders of a village court, or jirga. Mai’s then 12-year-old brother Abdul Shakoor (pictured behind her) had been seen walking with a girl from the more influential Mastoi tribe; they demanded Mai’s rape to avenge their “honor.” Mai’s family sat helplessly while she was dragged into a room, even as she screamed and pleaded for mercy. To further humiliate her, and make an example of those who would defy the power of local strongmen, she was paraded naked before hundreds of onlookers. Her father covered her with a shawl and walked her home.
Mai’s case is hardly unique in Pakistan. During the first seven months of 2004, according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, at least 151 Pakistani women were gang-raped and 176 were killed in the name of honor. The vast majority of perpetrators go unpunished. Yet Mai refused to remain silent. She said she would rather “die at the hands of such animals” than “give up her right to justice” and pursued her case despite the threat of further violence. Against the odds, she won. Six men involved in her rape have been punished, with two of them sentenced to death (although Pakistani human-rights groups and I oppose the death penalty), and the government awarded her compensation. Mai has used the money to open a school in her village so that the force of education can wash away this crime perpetuated in the name of tradition.
As long as the state refuses to fully challenge the brutality of tribal law, the plight of Pakistani women will continue. Mukhtar Mai is a symbol of their victimhood, but in her resilience she is also a symbol of their strength.
ASMA JAHANGIR is a founding member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings
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And this article too conveniently ignores listing the evidence or who additionally got the jail terms? From what I can tell the jirga includes a lot of people .. They should all get jail terms of some sort as long as they voted for it.
Most articles just reiterate the same things, which leads me to believe that the source of all thee articles is the same, just added personal opinions added. Has GEO or any other TV station aired an interview of Mai?
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um - here’s links to the news stories on her website: http://www.mukhtarmai.com/Links.htm
Here’s a link to the story that was at BBC June 10, 2005 - the most updated one I guess. Ahmadjee - this one sums it up, no mention of jirga or not, but gives timelines etc - apparently the high court ordered the men be released.
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Here’s the link for today : source