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Some good news for Pakistani activist and educator Mukhtar Mai:
Pakistan's High Court Suspends Acquittals in Village Gang Rape [NYT permalink]
General Pervez Musharraf (official website) rescinds the travel ban and returns Mai's passport, saying that he now has "full faith in her and her patriotism." [BBC]
Aside: General Musharraf's mailbag is worth a look all by itself.
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It does continue to astound me that Musharraf (and, presumably, the rest of the government) think the embarrassing part is that she talked about being raped for "honor," not the rape itself.
Posted by: Mnemosyne | June 30, 2005 at 07:02 PM
This is not really so astonishing if you realize that they are worried about the sanctimonious Western media taking the mote out of Pakistan's eye while ignoring the beam in their own, so to speak. Or the beam out of Pakistan's eye while ignoring the beam in their own. Or whatever. There is a "bomb them until they become like us" contingent in the West, you know.
So while it's certainly quite likely, nay, certain that male privilege is a factor here, there's also the defensiveness that some of these countries feel they must exhibit when dealing with Western media.
Posted by: Mandos | June 30, 2005 at 08:03 PM
Wonderful news all around. It's hard to be optimistic sometimes, but this cheers me mightily.
Posted by: Amanda Marcotte | June 30, 2005 at 10:38 PM