Catch-22: Report the rape without four witnesses, and risk being thrown into jail for adultery. Try to hide it for fear of adultery charges and other reprisals, and get thrown into jail for "concealing" it. A similar charge was tacked onto the much more widely known case of Gulnaz in Afghanistan.
"Victim gets jail term for concealing rape," by Shabbir Mir for the Express Tribune, December 12 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A rape victim has been sentenced to six months in prison for ‘concealing’ the incident involving her own son-in-law in a remote village of northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.
The district and sessions court in Ghakuch Valley, the headquarters for Ghizer district and about 80 kilometres from Gilgit, also handed down a 15-year imprisonment to the rapist. Read the rest on: Jihad Watch
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