Malala's attackers sentenced to life imprisonment by Pakistan court

Source: Mashable

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced ten men involved in the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in 2012 to life imprisonment, the Express Tribune reported Thursday.

The militants from the extremist group known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested in September last year.

Yousafzai, who was already a prominent activist campaigning for girls' education, was shot and wounded in October 2012, aged 15, on her way home from school in Mingora in Pakistan's Swat Valley region. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack at the time.

She was flown to a hospital in Peshawar, where a bullet was removed from her skull, before being transferred to a military hospital and eventually flown to the UK, where she received specialist treatment at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

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