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Pakistan Court Releases Rapist Following Agreement That He Will Marry The Victim.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to an attorney, a rapist was freed from prison in Pakistan after he wed his victim in a deal arranged by an elders\u2019 council in the northwest of the nation.<\/p>\n Rights advocates are incensed by the ruling, which they claim legitimizes sexual assault against women in a nation where most rapes are not reported.<\/p>\n In May, a lower court in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province\u2019s Buner district handed down a life sentence to Dawlat Khan, 25, for raping a lady who was deaf.<\/p>\n After the Peshawar High Court approved a settlement reached outside of court by the family of the rape victim, he was freed from jail on Monday.<\/p>\n AFP was informed by Amjad Ali, Khan\u2019s attorney, that \u201cthe rapist and the victim are from the same extended family.\u201d<\/p>\n After a deal was reached with the aid of the neighborhood jirga (traditional council), he continued, \u201cboth families have patched up.<\/p>\n After his unmarried victim gave birth to a kid earlier this year, Khan was apprehended after a paternity test revealed he was the child\u2019s biological father.<\/p>\n Since women are frequently treated as second-class citizens in Pakistan, rape cases are notoriously difficult to prosecute.<\/p>\n The Asma Jahangir Legal Aid Cell, a group that offers legal aid to at-risk women, claims that less than 3% of cases that go to trial result in a conviction.<\/p>\n Due to the related societal shame, few cases are recorded, and the poor conviction rates are also impacted by mistakes made during investigations, poor prosecutorial tactics, and out-of-court settlements.<\/p>\n Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, a lawyer and human rights activist, described the Peshawar court ruling as \u201cessentially the court\u2019s support of rape and facilitation of rapists and rape mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n She told AFP that \u201cit is against the fundamental values of justice and the law of the state which does not recognize such an arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n The decision \u201cappalled,\u201d according to the Pakistani Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n The group tweeted that rape is a non-compoundable offense that cannot be remedied by a weak marriage \u201ccompromise.\u201d<\/p>\n In rural Pakistan, village councils made up of local elders called jirgas or panchayats are created, bypassing the judicial system even though their decisions have no legal weight.<\/p>\n Link to source : https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/261061365404\/posts\/pfbid09mLZxraB3YtyEeaN7fHYeuYkvSHia5zK6xZQntSFcvqyZHCmGGfX5PQiwuGvGt4Al\/?app=fbl<\/p>\n Content created and supplied by: 001News (via Opera \n , . , . () , , , , , , , , . \/ , and\/or . , , and\/or , and\/or <\/span> Pakistan Court Releases Rapist Following Agreement That He Will Marry The Victim. According to an attorney, a rapist was freed from prison in Pakistan after he wed his victim in a deal arranged by an elders\u2019 council in the northwest of the nation. Rights advocates are incensed by the ruling, which they claim legitimizes sexual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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