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June 8, 2015

Pakistan Cleared 8 of 10 Convicted for Attack on Malala Yousafzai 
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Pakistan has acknowledged it has cleared eight of the ten people
convicted for the attempted murder of Pakistani education activist
Malala Yousafzai. 
In 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman who boarded
her school bus. She survived serious wounds and now continues to
campaign around the world, winning the Nobel Peace Prize last year. In
April, Pakistan said 10 men had been sentenced to life imprisonment for
the attack. But Pakistan now says eight of them were actually acquitted
due to a lack of evidence.

 

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