Mukhtaran Mai was brutally gang-raped on the orders of her village council, because of an offence her 12-year-old brother was alleged to have committed.
He was deemed to have offended the honour of the powerful Mastoi clan by allegedly having an affair with a clanswoman. He was seen in her company and that incensed tribal leaders.
Ms Mai was 33 years old at the time and everybody expected her to commit suicide, as is often the case after rape in Pakistan. In the small southern Punjab village of Meerwala in Pakistan, where she lived, that was certainly the expectation.
But Mukhtaran Mai refused and began what became a three-year legal battle against the men she said raped her and in doing so captured the imagination of millions around the world. More...
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