ISLAMABAD—Two years ago a Pakistani singer despatched shock waves thru the song enterprise and trigger off the country’s most excessive-profile #MeToo debate when she accused a fellow pop huge name of groping her. Now she is being prosecuted on a criminal defamation tag and is facing that you just would moreover bring to mind jail time.
Meesha Shafi has appealed the sexual harassment case she dropped at the country’s Supreme Court docket, after dropping a sequence of fine battles whereby judicial authorities ruled that her case isn’t lined by a law intended to guard females within the place of job.
The criminal defamation tag become once brought by the authorities after a complaint from the pop huge name she accused, Ali Zafar. If convicted, she would possibly moreover be sentenced to up to about a years in jail.
Supporters of Ms. Shafi bid her excellent battles can have an influence on the willingness of females to come support forward with sexual misconduct allegations, and the discontinue consequence of the excellent wrestle would define who is roofed below a law designed to guard females from harassment within the place of job.
The harassment case “will decide on the scope of the law for preserving females rating within the place of job,” stated Khwaja Ahmad Hosain, a lawyer who is representing Ms. Shafi at the Supreme Court docket. “The discontinue consequence will be critical for all females in this country.”
