ABC News (Australia): The chief justice of Pakistan has intervened over a video in circulation showing the public flogging of a teenage girl in the north-western Swat Valley area.
Chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has called a court hearing on the matter next week.
He has ordered top government officials from North West Frontier Province to appear in person and produce the girl, who is shown in the video being held down by two men while a third hits her with a strap while she cries out in pain.
A human rights activist, Tahira Abdullah, described the flogging as a defamation of Islam.
"I am sickened to the core. I feel nauseous," she said. >>> | Saturday, April 4, 2009
