A high court in Pakistan has upheld the death sentence given to two convicts who raped a French woman of Pakistani origin in 2020.
The Lahore High Court dismissed the appeals of the two men convicted in the infamous rape case and upheld the trial court's verdict of awarding them death sentences.
The case, which came to be known as the motorway gang rape case, sent shockwaves across the country and raised questions on women's safety in Pakistan.
The two convicts, Abid Ali alias Malhi and Shafqat Ali alias Bagga, were handed down death sentences, along with life imprisonment and multiple jail terms by an anti-terrorism court on March 20, 2021.
The 2020 motorway gang rape case involved a 32-year-old woman, travelling with her three children, who were stranded on the Sialkot-Lahore motorway near Lahore when their car ran out of fuel.
Two armed men broke into the vehicle and robbed her before dragging her to an empty field nearby, where the duo raped her at gunpoint in front of her children.
