PAKISTAN: Police arrest 20 for ordering ‘revenge rape’

Pakistani police have arrested 20 people in Punjab province accused of organising a village council that ordered a man to rape a 16-year-old girl in revenge for the earlier rape of his sister, according to officials. The suspects were arrested from near the central city of Multan on Wednesday, and a hunt for seven more […]

Pakistani police have arrested 20 people in Punjab province accused of organising a village council that ordered a man to rape a 16-year-old girl in revenge for the earlier rape of his sister, according to officials.

The suspects were arrested from near the central city of Multan on Wednesday, and a hunt for seven more suspects was under way, Malik Rashid, the local police official heading the investigation, said.

“It was not a formal village council, like has happened in the past,” he said. “It was just a gathering of uncles and aunts [of the first victim] from that village, in the same area.”

Cases had been registered regarding the two rapes, he confirmed.