written by AFP staff
Saturday May 19, 2012
Dozens of people protested in the Yemeni capital on Saturday to demand the arrest of seven men who allegedly gang raped a 13-year-old girl.
The protesters marched from the justice ministry towards the attorney general's headquarters in Sanaa where they called for the suspects, who have escaped, to be brought to justice.
The girl was raped on "May 9 while she was heading to the bakery. She was kidnapped and taken into a car whose owner has been identified," said Ahmed al-Qirshi, head of Seyaj, an organisation for the protection of children.
"The girl was brutally raped by the suspects who then deformed her face using sharp tools," Qirshi told AFP.
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UPI news
written by Staff
Tuesday May 15, 2012
SANAA, Yemen, May 15 (UPI) -- Police officers in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, say a 13 year-old girl was fatally beaten after she was gang raped by seven men.
The young orphan was kidnapped early Wednesday while going to buy bread a local bakery by a group of drunken men that allegedly included Ali Abdel-Kareem Hamid, the son of a powerful tribal leader, Bikyamasr reported Tuesday.
Residents expressed their outrage at the Sheikh's attempts to buy his son a way out of legal proceedings by offering to pay the girl's father, her only relative, for damages, and to marry the victim post mortem. [TWISTED SOB! >:/ (emphasis mine)]
Facing mounting pressure as his son is the primary suspect of the rape investigation, the Sheikh reportedly warned he would kill anyone who would dare approach his son.
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