DOCUMENTARY: Outlawed in Pakistan

When 13-year-old Kainat Soomro accused four men of gang rape, she risked everything: her reputation, her education and even her life. In Pakistan, just talking about rape and sexual violence is a cultural taboo. But bringing a case through the Pakistani courts and discerning truth from fiction is dangerous, complicated and, and as filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann learned, fraught with challenges. The two spent nearly four years probing Kainat's story as she took on the men she says raped her — as well as of her alleged rapists' quest to clear their names.

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