PAKISTAN: Sex change couple sentenced to jail
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A Pakistani court has sentenced a couple to three years' jail after it deemed they lied about the husband's sexual status. Last week the court ruled that the husband was, in fact, a woman, despite having had sex-change surgery 16 years earlier. It also ruled their marriage was un-Islamic because it was same-sex. The case is believed the first of its kind in Pakistan where it has raised the vexatious issue of homosexuality and transexuality in this Muslim society.
Presenter: Bill Bainbridge
Speakers: Shah Taj Qizilbash, convenor of the Joint action Committee and member Women's Action Forum, Shumail Raj, defendent, lawyer Syed Zahid Bukhari
