PAKISTAN: 20 arrested by cops for ordering “revenge rape”

Security operatives in the Punjab region of Pakistan have arrested no less than 20 suspects who ordered a man to rape a 16-year-old girl in revenge for the earlier rape of his sister.

According to Malik Rashid, the local police official heading the investigation, the suspects were arrested from near the central city of Multan on Wednesday, and a hunt for seven more suspects was under way.

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“It was not a formal village council, like has happened in the past,” he said. “It was just a gathering of uncles and aunts [of the first victim] from that village, in the same area.”

Cases had been registered regarding the two rapes, he confirmed.

The arrested suspects now face the maximum punishment for rape under Pakistani law which is the death penalty or alternatively face imprisonment of up to 25 years for allegedly ordering the rape victim’s brother to rape suspect’s sister.

 

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