Pakistani gang-rape victim appeals to Supreme Court
Pakistani gang-rape victim Mukhtaran Mai (R) is escorted by a policewoman and a friend as she leaves the Supreme Court in Islamabad, 27 June 2005. Pakistan's Supreme Court was to hear an appeal against the acquittal of five men who allegedly gang-raped Mai on the orders of a village council, in a case that sparked international outrage. Mai, 33, was raped for more than an hour in June 2002 on the orders of a tribal council at Meerwala in the central province of Punjab, as punishment for her brother's alleged affair with a woman from a powerful rival clan. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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