2007年5月24日木曜日

Judge jails couple over husband's sex change

The judge at Lahore High Court in eastern Pakistan ruled the pair had lied about the husband's gender and that operations to make the husband a full man were not carried out properly.

Judge Khwaja Mohammad Sharif said he would announce the length of the sentences on Saturday and that he was further considering whether to try the pair for homosexuality.

"It was an illegal and un-Islamic marriage which is not sustainable under the law," the judge said.

The husband, Shamile Raj, 31, married his cousin Shehzina Tariq in September last year in what they said was a bid to avoid her being sold off to pay the debts of her hard-gambling uncle.

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