Who is Mukhtaran Mai?
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"Mukhtaran Bibi (مختاران بیبی, born c. 1972, also known as Mukhtar Mai, Mukhtiar or Mukhtaran) is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural tehsil (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. Mukhtar Mai suffered a gang rape as a form of honor-revenge (see honour killing), on the demands of tribesmen — or by some accounts, on the orders of a panchayat (tribal council) — of a local clan that was richer and more powerful than Mukhtaran's clan, the Tatla. By custom, Pakistani women are expected to commit suicide after such an event. Instead, she took the settlement money provided her by the government following a court case, and opened a center for refuge and education, the Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization." From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhtaran_Bibi
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She is a Pakistani woman who was raped by order of her village. She took it to court, won, sued the money to start a school for girls. But then later the government felt is was drawing too much national attention and they banned her from traveling and speaking about what had happened. I remember that some of the rapists were due to be released from prison but I don't know if anything happened after that. But she is still a symbol for victims of these kinds of crime in Pakistan and elsewhere where women have few rights.
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