PARIS, Jan 15: Mukhtaran Mai arrived in France on Saturday for the presentation of her French biography. Arriving in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, Mukhtaran Mai said she was happy that her French-language memoir “Deshonouree” (Dishonoured) had been published.

Mai was 28-years-old when she was gang-raped on the orders of a tribal council in 2002 as punishment for her brother’s alleged love affair with a woman from another tribe.

She was then forced to walk home naked in front of a crowd of onlookers.

The case and Mai’s high-profile quest to bring her rapists to justice garnered extensive international attention.

“Deshonouree”, written in collaboration with Marie-Therese Cuny, hit bookshelves in France on Thursday.

Mai said, through an interpreter, that she wanted “to spread to women worldwide the message that each time a woman is abused it is important to be by her side.”

She is due to meet with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy on Monday before leaving for the United States on Tuesday.—AFP