UK campaigners staged a vigil for Malala Yousufzai on Thursday as doctors said the 14-year-old girl remained in a stable condition. The teenager is being treated at a hospital in Birmingham, central England, having been flown to Britain on Monday for specialist care.
"Malala Yousufzai's condition remains stable. She spent a third comfortable night in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and doctors are pleased with her progress so far," the hospital said in a statement. "The various specialist consultants from both the Queen Elizabeth and Birmingham Children's hospitals continue to assess her on a daily basis."
Her family remain in Pakistan, added the hospital, which also treats British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan. In Birmingham city centre, a dozen activists from Women2Gether and Amina Women's Group staged a vigil outside the main local authority buildings. Participants held small cardboard placards reading "I am Malala", lit white candles, and laid two bunches of pink and yellow flowers on the ground. An Amina Women's Group member told reporters: "Brave Malala said what so many of us wish to say but we are too afraid.