PAKISTAN. 4 MEN HANGED FOR GANG RAPE OF CHRISTIAN WOMAN

President Pervez Musharraf

03 July 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.
 

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