FAR from the dusty village where she was brutally assaulted three years ago on the orders of a tribal council, Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai appeared before the Supreme Court in Islamabad yesterday.

Far from the dusty village where she was brutally assaulted three years ago on the orders of a tribal council, Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai appeared before the Supreme Court in the capital today to demand the reinstatement of death sentences for five of her alleged attackers.

Pakistan’s highest Islamic court has thrown out the controversial acquittal of five men convicted of raping a woman on orders from a village council in a case that shocked the world.

A Pakistani woman gang-raped by four men on the orders of a traditional village jury said she was satisfied with the six death sentences handed down for the crime yesterday.

Six men were tonight sentenced to death after gang raping a woman to punish her family.