Zafran Bibi

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Charge:	Adultery
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
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Year Convicted:	2002
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pakistan
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Zafran Bibi was wrongly convicted "for the crime of having extramarital relations," and sentenced to death by stoning. Zafran Bibi accused her brother-in-law of raping her, although it couldn't be proven because under the law in the part of Pakistan in which she lives a rape has to be witnessed by four men before it is prosecutable. Her conviction was based on her accusation of being raped and the baby she had as a result of her "relations" with the brother-in-law, since her husband couldn't be the father since he was in prison. Bibi's conviction was overturned by a Pakistani Appeals Ct. and she was released on June 6, 2002 after being jailed for more than a year."
Conviction Caused By:	Her accusation of being raped and the baby she had while her husband was in a prison that didn't allow conjugal visits.
Innocence Proved By:	Appeals Ct. reversed her conviction.
Defendant Aided By:	Public outcry about the circumstances of her conviction and the severity of her sentence.
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Age When Imprisoned:	25
Age When Released:	26
Sex:	Female
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Information Source 1:	""Rape victim, freed of death sentence, still in danger," Seth Mydans (The NY Times writer), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 8, 2002."
Information Location 1:	http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/73808_rape08.shtml
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Zafran Bibi

Charge:

Adultery

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2002

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pakistan

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Her accusation of being raped and the baby she had while her husband was in a prison that didn't allow conjugal visits.

Innocence Proved By:

Appeals Ct. reversed her conviction.

Defendant Aided By:

Public outcry about the circumstances of her conviction and the severity of her sentence.

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

25

Age When Released:

26

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

""Rape victim, freed of death sentence, still in danger," Seth Mydans (The NY Times writer), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 8, 2002."

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/73808_rape08.shtml

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