Todays News from the Stone Age

[Dedworth]

Pakistani women's lives destroyed by acid attacks

Campaigners in Pakistan say cases of acid attacks are increasing in most areas, even though tougher penalties were introduced last year. An Oscar-winning Pakistani documentary has put the crime under the spotlight, but it is estimated that more than 150 women have acid thrown on them every year - usually by husbands or in-laws - and many never get justice. The BBC's Orla Guerin reports.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17676542

[joebloggs]

i've watched it with the misses its pretty shocking
some of the husbands are smiling in the film,
yes the law has been changed, one guy got 2 life sentences.
and to the surgeon who helped them

[imagine]

its sickening