Tag: Two Finger Test
LHC bans virginity test countrywide
January 4th, 2021; By Rehan Piracha; LAHORE; In a historic judgment, the Lahore High Court on Monday banned the two-finger test and the hymen test of female rape victims across the country, declaring the procedures unscientific, discriminatory, illegal and unconstitutional.
Rights Watch | 14th December 2020
Interior Ministry to provide Rs. 4.3 million in compensation to wife of computer engineer Sajid Mehmood who has been missing for the past four years. The amount takes into account the money Mehmood would have provided for his family. For more stories, keep reading.
Intrusive, invasive and humiliating: time to end the two finger test
September 16th, 2020; By Hamid Riaz; LAHORE; “Rape is basically a crime based on the absence of consent,” says Sarah Zaman. “And in context of the Two Finger Test the courts cannot pre-suppose consent just because the victim was sexually active.”