The Women Jailed for Being Victims of Assault | 60 Minutes Australia

Under former dictator President Zia, Pakistan plunged into the dark ages with the strict "Zina Ordinance," a brutal set of Islamic laws that saw rape victims routinely jailed and women facing public whippings or stoning to death for adultery. In 1990, 60 Minutes reporter Jennifer Byrne travelled to a Peshawar women's prison to meet the innocent victims of these barbaric laws, shedding light on a human rights crisis that would take decades of political fighting to finally reform.

*Prisoners of Zina (1990)*
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