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) werearrested 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.
She came to international attention in 2009, at the age of 11, when she started a diary about life under the Taliban for BBC Urdu.
People light candles to pay tribute to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai in Multan, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014.
Last October she became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Birmingham, sharing the prize with Kailash Satyarthi of India.
"I really believe in peace. I really believe in tolerance and patience. I used to say that I do not think I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. I still believe that," she said at the time.
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