10 men have been
jailed for life for the bus attack on Malala Yousafzai in 2012.
Malala
was shot in the head on her school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley in what
was believed to be an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Her
"crime" was speaking up for the right of girls to be educated. Two
other girls were wounded in the attacks.
Each
man jailed received a 25 year sentence - these are the first people to be
convicted over the shooting, targeted at Malala because she was working against
Taliban efforts to deny girls an education.
Malala spent
her 16th birthday giving a live address from the UN headquarters, and
has since been the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate, after being
announced at the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, at the age of
17, for fighting for all children to have the right to be educated.
Sky News report:
An official said none of the four or five men who carried
out the attack on Malala was among the 10 men sentenced on Thursday.
But he said: "Certainly they had a role in the
planning and execution of the assassination attempt on Malala."
Several people are still wanted
in connection with the shooting.
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