Security for Mukhtar Mai

Published March 17, 2005

LAHORE, March 16: Thirty policemen have been sent to the village of rape victim Mukhtar Mai after the release of four of the men acquitted of attacking her, BBC said in a report on Wednesday. The four have returned to the village where the attack occurred and where Mukhtar Mai still lives, police said.

The four left a jail in Dera Ghazi Khan, to return to the village of Meerwala. Police officer Mohammed Iqbal said the men had been ordered “to stay away from Mukhtar Mai’s house”.

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