World News 30-06-2005 who: 33 year-old schoolteacher Mukhtaran Mai what: Wins Supreme Court battle against men ordered to rape her by tribal council where: Islamabad when: Tuesday snippet: "Six men - four alleged rapists and two village elders - were sentenced to death in the original July 2002 trial, which heard the shocking story of how a village court ordered Ms Mukhtaran`s rape as punishment for an illicit sexual affair allegedly committed by her 12-year-old brother," explains The Scotsman. "An investigation later established that her brother had committed no crime but had in fact been sexually assaulted by a member of a rival clan." But in March this year, a provincial court overturned the sentences, acquitting five of the men and giving the sixth a life sentence. Now all six - plus another eight who were jurors in the illegal tribal council - again face death by hanging. Meanwhile, in more news of brute justice, The Independent reports that an Iranian man has been sentenced to have his eyes surgically removed for a crime he committed 12 years ago that left another man blind. [... more]

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