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(6 Jul 2002)

Meerwala/Multan, 6 July 2002
1. Various shots of Meerwala village, Punjab province
2. Exterior local jail, in Multan, near Meerwala village
3. Close up sign
4. Second rape suspect, Faiz Bakhsh Mastoi, being led to cell by police
5. Various of rape suspect, Faiz Bakhsh Mastoi, standing in cell
6. Arrested policeman, Muhammad Iqbal, being led to cell by police
7. Close up Muhammad Iqbal behind bars in cell
8. Mid shot above
9. Set up shot Muzaffargarh's Senior Superintendent of Police, Farman Ali
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Farman Ali, Muzaffargarh's Senior Superintendent of Police:
"One of our officers, Muhammad Iqbal, who brought (names a suspect) to the police station and alleged he had had innocent relations with the accused party's sister. So he did not follow the law, and he has been arrested and will be given a punishment."
11. Family of rape victim Mukhtaran Mai and her brother, Shakoor, emerge from house in village of Meerwala
12. Various family of rape victim
13. Close up brother Shakoor
14. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Mukhtaran Mai, rape victim:
"I was dragged by the people, I begged them not to do this, I begged them to stop, but they would not. My uncle and my father tried to stop them but they did not stop."
15. Two shots father crying
16. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) father of rape victim:
"Everybody is helping us now, the police - we are being protected."

Karachi, 5 July 2002
17. Various women demonstrating against rape
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nirgas, anti-rape demonstrator
"In this country, because the law does not respect itself, nobody respects it. If today an example was set and an exemplary punishment awarded to these criminals, rest assured that tomorrow these incidents would come, if not to a total standstill, then at least they would not be done openly in public."
19. Mid shot demonstration

STORYLINE:

A suspect in the gang rape of an 18-year-old girl conducted as part of a tribal punishment was arrested on Saturday after surrendering to a local newspaper, police said.

Faiz Bakhsh Mastoi was the second man arrested in connection to the June 22 rape in the past two days. Police are searching for two other suspects.

Bakhsh Mastoi went to the office of a local newspaper in Multan, a regional centre in Punjab province, and identified himself as one of those wanted in the case. Police arrested him there.

Pakistani police also arrested one of their officers for not preventing the gang-rape, carried out on the orders of a tribal council. Assistant Sub-Inspector Muhammad Iqbal was charged with criminal negligence for failing to detain the rapists immediately after the crime.

Police said the woman was raped by four men after a tribal council in Meerwala village, in Punjab province, ordered that her family be punished after her 11-year-old brother was seen walking unchaperoned with a girl from a different tribe. The victim's family was from the Gujar tribe, considered lower class than the Mastoi tribe to which the girl who walked with the boy belonged.

The council was Mastoi, as were the men who carried out the rape.

Police say the tribal verdict was illegal. But Pakistan has a tradition of tribal justice in which crimes or affronts to dignity are punished outside the framework of Pakistani law.

The rape has outraged rights groups, who have demanded an end to punishments by tribal councils. The Pakistan government has given the family 500-thousand rupees (8,000 US dollars) as compensation and says a school will be built in Meerwala in the victim's name.




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