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PESHAWAR: A Pakistan court freed a rapist after he married his victim in a settlement brokered by a council of elders in the northwest of the country, his lawyer said Wednesday.The decision has outraged rights activists, who say it legitimises sexual violence against women in a country where a majority of rape goes unreported.Dawlat Khan, 25, was sentenced in May to life imprisonment by a lower court in Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for raping a deaf woman.He was released from prison on Monday after the Peshawar High Court accepted an out-of-court settlement agreed by the rape survivor’s family.“The rapist and the victim are from the same extended family,“ Amjad Ali, Khan’s l

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