PAKISTAN. FOUR GANG-RAPE SUSPECTS REARRESTED

Pakistani authorities acting on the orders of the president and prime minister rearrested four men involved in a high-profile gang-rape case after an appeal by the alleged victim, Mukhtiar Mai. The four had been freed from jail on March 15 despite a decision by the country's top court to reconsider their acquittal on charges of assaulting Mai, 33, who has become a rights campaigner since the 2002 attack.
"I am happy over the decision," Mai told AFP Friday, after Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz informed her during a meeting in the capital Islamabad that the men had been taken back into custody.