Mukhtaran Bibi, the Pakistani woman who was sentenced to a gang rape by a tribal council for a crime her brother had committed, spoke out in Washington yesterday:

"I am the voice of those Pakistani women who need you to stand behind them in their fight for justice…I have raised a voice against oppression…"

Her comments come in the wake of the outrageous statement made by Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf that women in Pakistan get themselves raped.

Bibi is receiving Glamour magazine’s "Woman of the Year" award today. Could we give Musharraf the asshole of the year award?