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| Pakistan Zainab murder: Imran Ali hanged for six-year-old's death | |
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| Pakistan has hanged a man convicted for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Ansari in January. | |
| Imran Ali, who was arrested after her body was found in a garbage dump, was executed in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat prison early on Wednesday, police said. | Imran Ali, who was arrested after her body was found in a garbage dump, was executed in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat prison early on Wednesday, police said. |
| Zainab's father and other relatives were present. | Zainab's father and other relatives were present. |
| The case, the most heinous in a string of similar child murders in the city of Kasur, had sparked outrage and protests in the country. | The case, the most heinous in a string of similar child murders in the city of Kasur, had sparked outrage and protests in the country. |
| After he was sentenced to death for raping and murdering Zainab, Imran Ali was convicted for similar crimes against six more girls. | |
| Zainab's father, Amin Ansari, said after the execution that he was "satisfied". | |
| "I have seen his awe-inspiring end with my own eyes. They dropped him on the gallows, and let his body hang for half an hour," he told reporters. | |
| However Mr Ansari, who said that Zainab would have been seven years and two months old if she was alive, expressed regret that authorities did not televise the hanging. | |
| Mr Ansari's earlier appeal for Ali to face a public hanging was dismissed by the Lahore High court. | |
| #JusticeforZainab | |
| Zainab disappeared on 4 January and her body was found five days later in a rubbish dump. | |
| Police said there had been several similar child murders in the past two years in Kasur but her killing proved to be a tipping point. | |
| It triggered widespread outrage, including protests complaining of police incompetence. Two people were killed in clashes. | |
| Zainab's family said the police did not take action during the five days from when she was reported missing until her body was found. | |
| Relatives, not police, recovered CCTV footage of her last movements. | |
| The footage, which showed a girl being led away by a man, was circulated widely on social media. The hashtag #JusticeForZainab later went viral, with many Pakistanis calling for action. | |
| On 23 January, 24-year-old Imran Ali was arrested though a DNA match. | |
| He was sentenced to death in February for Zainab's rape and murder. His appeals against the verdict failed and earlier this month President Arif Alvi rejected a plea for clemency. | He was sentenced to death in February for Zainab's rape and murder. His appeals against the verdict failed and earlier this month President Arif Alvi rejected a plea for clemency. |