News Picture, 3rd prize
Monte Fresco
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
01 January, 1978
A man convicted of rape is sentenced to receive 12 strokes by cane. Two others were given the same sentence. The first public flogging in Pakistan was watched by a crowd of 15,000.
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