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PAKISTAN. 4 MEN HANGED FOR GANG RAPE OF CHRISTIAN WOMAN
June 29, 2006: Shehzad Ahmad, 29, Muhammad Ashraf, 34, Mubarik Ali, 28, and Umer Hayat, 32, were hanged in Pakistan for gang-raping a teenaged Christian girl at gunpoint in the central city of Faisalabad on November 7, 1999. The four men, all Muslims, were convicted by an anti-terrorism court and the verdict was upheld by higher courts, including the Federal Sharia (Islamic) Court.
"The men were hanged at 4:30 am," said a prison official in Faisalabad.
President General Pervez Musharraf had rejected mercy pleas from the men. (Sources: Reuters, 29/06/2006 and www.dawn.com, 30/07/2006)
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