Acquittals in Pakistan rape trial

April 21, 2011 last updated at 13: 21 GMT Mukhtar Mai lives in their village and runs a school for girls five of the six men on a village Council sanctioned gang rape in Pakistan have charged was acquitted by the Supreme Court of justice.

The Court confirmed the decision of a lower, which commute the death penalty in the sixth man of to life imprisonment included.

Press the victim, Mukhataran may, world headlines after their martyrdom in 2002 out talk. She now have a icon for the rights of women in Pakistan.

She said she now feared for their lives.

Mukhtar Mai was her clear and unambiguous even when she said minutes after the verdict, said the BBC's Shoaib Hasan in Pakistan.

"The police have never my own statements recorded correctly," she said.

"I have no more faith in the courts." I now have my faith in God's judgment. I don't know what the legal procedure, but my think [in the system] has disappeared.

"Yes, there is a threat to me and my family." Again, there is the danger of death, and even the same happens. "Anything can happen."

Hasan Ali Dayan of us human rights Watch said, that the judgment of Pakistani society sent a "very bad signal".

"It points to women can be abused and raped even with impunity and can commit those crimes," he told the BBC.

The Supreme Court ordered the five men immediate release - but it's not clear if they have or has been released.

The Court must issue still a detailed assessment. But the Lahore High Court - was - confirmed their decision the blame had to prove a lack of.

Our correspondent says that many people say that a further review of the case is required, as it has had an important impact on the rights of women in Pakistan.

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Mukhtaran was stormed on the orders of the powerful Mastoi clan as punishment, her brother - 12 at the time - allegedly woman had had an affair with a Mastoi. This, they said, had brought shame on the entire clan.

An illiterate villagers in the Eastern Province of Punjab, Mukhtaran as well as many other Pakistani women, who raped be suicide.

Instead they fought against their initial suicidal feelings and began a long legal battle, has earned awards and an iconic status for the rights of women in the country since their human rights.

Runs a school for girls in her village and has vowed to that Thursday's judgment not it will force to leave their home.

"Life and death are in the hands of Allah..." I not my school and other projects is shut down, "she said told of Reuters."

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