Posted on 07/01/2006 10:35:32 PM PDT by zaxxon
Four Pakistani men were hanged Thursday for gang-raping a Christian woman at gunpoint during a 1999 robbery, a jail official said.
Police arrested the men, all Muslim, shortly after attacking the woman in Faisalabad, an industrial city about 180 miles east of Multan, a main city in Punjab province. There appeared to be no sectarian motive for the crime.
An anti-terror court sentenced the men to death after convicting them of raping the woman and robbing her family of about $1,000. The men lost appeals last year, including a mercy plea to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
Faisalabad Jail superintendent Yousaf Ghauri said the men were hanged at the high-security prison. Their bodies were handed over to relatives waiting outside the jail.
Those hanged were identified as Umar Hayat, 35, Mubarak Ali, 36, Mohammed Ashraf, 32 and Mohammed Shahzad, 31.
The victim's family did not attend the executions, Ghauri said. Her father had told the court that the four took turns in raping his daughter inside his home and threatened to kill him if he raised the alarm, Ghauri said.
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The nightmares are less frequent, but they make up for it with intensity.
Nobody has the right to abuse anyone else for any reason. End of story.
That is very interesting since it is against Pakistani law and hadith to execute a Muslim for KILLING a non-Muslim. But a sex crime with four witnesses must be seen as less sectarianly divisive.
That's really hard to believe. They must have confessed. There is no way they would have taken the word of a Christian woman and her father over the word of 4 muslims.
Heck, here in the states rapists are usually paroled several times.
And what happened to the woman? Stoned to death for being 'wanton'?
This is what we need to do to rapist in this country.
You missed my levity.
The Balkan's tragedy is gonna be a dark day for America when we look at what we did without the political correct goggles on.
I'm sorry.
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