UPDATE: Pakistan: Supreme Court adjourns hearing of Mukhtar Mai's case indefinitely
Mukhtar Mai's counsel, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, had moved an application for adjournment, which was considered the best course of action in the current circumstances. With no right to a further appeal, Mai's rapists will stay in jail. However, the threat to the safety of Mukhtar Mai, and her family, from those implicated in the interference in her case remains.
A message of thanks from Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization:
"Hats off to all of you for your efforts for all the interventions you made in support of Mukhtar! and to Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan for agreeing to appear for Mukhtar's case because he has not been appearing in any case because of his principled stand believing the imposition of emergency and sacking of the judiciary in November 2007 illegal and unconstitutional. Barrister Ahsan is former President of Supreme Court Bar Association and is one of the main leader of the lawyers movement."
For more background on this case please see here:
http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[157]=x-157-243305
here: http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[157]=x-157-187717
and here: http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[157]=x-157-542952
Source:
Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization
