Pakistan - Thousands Rally

Seems everybody wants more freedom these days.

MULTAN, Pakistan - Thousands of women rallied in eastern Pakistan on Monday to demand justice and protection for a woman who said she was gang-raped at the direction of a village council, after a court ordered the release of her alleged attackers.

The victim, Mukhtar Mai, also attended the rally in Multan, a major city in the eastern province of Punjab.

Waving signs and chanting, the demonstrators, many of them from nearby villages, joined the rally. Organizer Farzana Bari said more than 3,000 women were at the event.

Women in Kuwait are on the march as well.

Maybe in this explosion of democracy, Muslim women are sensing now is the time to gain their freedom.
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