This has to be the worst case of injustice I've ever heard of in recent memory:
Pakistani girl punished with gangrape for brother’s affair.
Multan, July 2: A teenage girl was gang-raped in Pakistan last month as ‘‘punishment’’ meted out by a tribal jury for her brother’s alleged affair with a woman of a higher tribe, police said today.
A panchayat ordered four men, including one of the jurists, to rape the 18-year-old girl on June 22 in Meerwala village, 120 kilometres from here, police said.
District Police Chief Malik Saeed Awan said authorities were informed of the publicly-ordered gang-rape several days after the incident. He said four men took turns to sexually assault the girl inside a room. She was then ordered to return home naked before 1,000 onlookers.
The rape was to avenge the ‘‘insult’’ caused to a family of the Mastoi tribe by the girl’s brother’s alleged ‘‘illicit affair’’ with a woman of a higher social standing. The girl and her brother were from the lower Gujjar tribe.
The panchayat had threatened that all women in the accused’s family would be raped unless she submitted herself to the public gang rape. Awan said police were taking action against members of the panchayat.
Lawyers visiting the tribal area yesterday urged the authorities to prosecute the rapists and the jury.
There are a few more articles here:
http://news.asiaco.com/world/pakistan/
It's hard to believe that this kind of thing goes on in the 21st century.
Mark