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...last Thursday, an appeals court overturned the verdict against the men accused of raping Mai, citing a lack of evidence and a poor investigation by the prosecution. Her lawyer, Rashid Rehman, claimed that the investigators had been pressured by the Mastoi. Five of the accused walked free while the other had his sentence commuted to life in prison. "I am in pain," Mai said afterward. "I will ask my lawyer to challenge the decision." Human-rights groups have condemned the ruling: I.A. Rehman, director of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, says the trial "brought disgrace to Pakistan...
...With the release of the men who allegedly abused her, Mai's troubles may be beginning all over again. Says Rehman the human-rights activist: "The freed men will now be thirsting for revenge against Mai and her family." Several human-rights activists are demanding that the Pakistani government provide Mai and her family with police protection; without it, they say, she may have to flee the village to avoid harm. Unbowed, Mai intends to keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned...
...overturned the verdict against the men accused of raping Mai, citing a lack of evidence and a poor investigation by the prosecution. Her lawyer, Rashid Rehman, claimed that the investigators had been pressured by the Mastoi. Five of the accused walked free while the other had his sentence commuted to life in prison. "I am in pain," Mai said afterward. "I will ask my lawyer to challenge the decision." Human-rights groups have condemned the ruling: I.A. Rehman, director of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, says the trial "brought disgrace to Pakistan's justice system." With the release...
...SHABANA REHMAN, comedienne
...reassured by the fact that her mom had found a husband despite similar wisps of down, "but that was before I knew that Dad had been forced to marry her." Not everyone is amused. In an August 2002 article in the Aftenposten daily, anthropologist Marianne Gullestad accused Rehman of reinforcing stereotypes about Muslims, and making Norwegians think it's O.K. to discriminate against immigrants. Rehman rejects the criticism. "I'm not out to stimulate dialogue but to satirize people's attitudes," she says. "That's why I make fun of religion, nationalism and Norwegian smugness." Rehman is not content...