Dawlat Khan had received a life sentence for the rape of a young deaf woman but a council of elders intervened to offer a compromise
A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.
Dawlat Khan, 25, had been sentenced to life imprisonment in May by the district court of Buner, in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, for the rape of a young deaf woman.
Continue reading…Dawlat Khan had received a life sentence for the rape of a young deaf woman but a council of elders intervened to offer a compromise A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.Dawlat Khan, 25, had been sentenced to life imprisonment in May by the district court of Buner, in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, for the rape of a young deaf woman. Continue reading…