Today April 30th, a Pakistani Hight Court
convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment
ten people involved in an assassination attempt against teenage
education activist & Nobel Peace Prize Laurette, Malala Yousafzai in 2012.
Life imprisonment in Pakistan is 25 years.
Although none of the men who directly carried out the attack were arraigned and sentenced today, the 10 men sentenced played a role in the attack .
"They certainly had a role in the planning and execution of the assassination attempt on Malala," said a police official in Swat who declined to be identified as he was not authorized to speak to the media.Police believe the gunman who shot Malala escaped across the border into Afghanistan.
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