Court hands down six death sentences over woman’s rape

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.

A special anti-terrorism court in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province sentenced four rapists and two jurors early yesterday for the June 22 attack on 30-year-old divorcee Mukhtaran Mai.

Eight other men who had sat on the jury that authorised the crime were released.