Zainab Ansari | |
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زینب انصاری | |
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Born | Zainab Amin Ansari 18 August 2010 |
Disappeared | 4 January 2018 (aged 7) Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan |
Cause of death | Homicide via strangulation[1] |
Body discovered | 9 January 2018 near Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Nationality | Pakistani |
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Imran Ali | |
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Born | 1993 Pakistan |
Died | 17 October 2018 (aged 24) Central Jail Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan |
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
Criminal status | Executed |
Conviction(s) | Murder Kidnapping Rape Sodomy Committing an act of terrorism Committing an unnatural act |
Criminal penalty | Death |
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Victims | 8+ |
Span of crimes | 2017–2018 |
Country | Pakistan |
Zainab Amin Ansari (Urdu: زینب امین انصاری; c. 2010 – January 2018) was a seven-year-old Pakistani girl who was abducted in her hometown of Kasur, Punjab while she was on her way to Quran recitation classes on 4 January 2018. Her body was found discarded five days later within a garbage disposal site near the city of Lahore on 9 January 2018; an autopsy report disclosed that she had been extensively raped and tortured before being strangled to death.[2] Her rapist and murderer, 24-year-old Imran Ali, was arrested and identified as a serial killer responsible for at least seven previous rapes and murders of prepubescent girls in the region.[3]
Ansari's murder incited widespread protests and outrage throughout Pakistan,[4][5] and ultimately led to the passage of Pakistan's first national child safety law, known as the Zainab Alert Bill (similar to the AMBER Alert system in the United States).[6] The bill directs that any individual found guilty of child abuse faces a minimum mandatory sentence of life imprisonment and also stipulates instigating legal action against any law enforcement officials who cause any unnecessary delay in investigating such cases within two hours of a child being reported as missing.[7]
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