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Pakistani woman stoned to death by family for marrying the man she loved
A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death and killed by her family outside a high court in the Pakistani city of Lahore, for marrying the man she fell in love with, according to police and a lawyer. Police said about 20 members of the family started attacking Farzana Parveen, and her husband Mohammad Iqbal, with sticks and bricks as they waited for the high court to open on Tuesday afternoon.
The photo below, taken by Mohammad Tahir of Reuters, shows Pakistani police officers trying to gather evidence on the killing, as Parveen's body lies on the ground, with people surrounding the scene. The Associated Press said family members attacked the couple before a crowd of onlookers in front of the court. According to the police, everyone who was involved in the killing escaped except the girl's father, who admitted killing his daughter and said he did it for honor. Pakistani families who have been involved in such killings say a woman marrying a man without their permission is seen as a breach of honor of the family. To many, that translates as the reason to seek revenge, by killing their own children. Although the Pakistani government itself does not collect any data — and it is illegal to carry out such killings — several hundred women are said to be killed in honor killings every year in Pakistan. In the latest annual report released (PDF) by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 869 women were killed in the name of honor in 2013. Earlier this year, the BBC traveled to a village in northwestern Pakistan to tell the story of a young woman who survived an honor killing and has been publicly speaking about it since. As the story notes, such killings are difficult to prove or to prosecute because of two reasons: first, the lack of witnesses to the crime, and second, lack of motivation for the police to pursue the suspects, regardless of the evidence. But what happened in Lahore on Tuesday seems different. It wasn't in a remote village in Pakistan, neither was it in the middle of the night. Parveen was killed in broad daylight, in the presence of several bystanders, in front of the top court in the second largest city in Pakistan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...man-she-loved/ |
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05-28-2014, 08:31 AM | #31 |
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Seriously, how long does it take to stone a person to death? Holy shit, you have to have some serious conviction and hatred in your heart to carry that out. I know it's a mob and all, but damn...savages...
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Pakistan clearly needs to tighten it's restrictions on stones. I'm in favor of stone control.
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I hope the quartzite other acts of brutality like this and put these people in jail for life.
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that reminds me of the bumper sticker "I brake for woman with impending death rattle"
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Here is a picture from the scene right before the stoning began.
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She couldn't help herself - she was STONE IN LOVE!
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/29/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1 Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The husband of Farzana Parveen, the Pakistani woman stoned to death for refusing to participate in an arranged marriage, told CNN he killed his first wife so he could marry Parveen. Authorities said the first wife was killed six years ago. "I wanted to send a proposal to Farzana so I killed my wife," Mohammad Iqbal said Thursday in an interview with CNN. Zulfiqar Hameed, district inspector general for the Punjab police, said Iqbal's son from the first marriage alerted police to the slaying six years ago. The son, Aurengzeb, who is in his twenties, confirmed his father's statements to CNN. He said his father served a year in jail. Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was beaten to death with bricks Tuesday in the eastern city of Lahore by a group of about 20 people, including her brothers, father and cousin, police said. Police have arrested Parveen's father and are searching for the other killers in this all-too-common crime. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has requested Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif submit a report on the incident. The United Nations estimates 5,000 women are murdered worldwide by family members each year in "honor killings," so named because the woman's actions are considered to have brought shame on her family. But women's advocacy groups say the crime is underreported and the figure could be around 20,000 a year. According to a report published in April by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 869 women in that country were victims of honor killings last year. Honor-based violence has been reported in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, the UK and the United States, the U.N. said in a report titled "Global Violence Against Women in the Name of 'Honor.'" Most honor killings in the Mideast occur in rural areas. Tuesday's attack was unusual because it happened in a public area of a big city. Iqbal, a neighbor of Parveen's family, said he and Parveen were supposed to marry, with the family's approval, last year. As part of the arrangement, Iqbal said, he'd given Parveen's father 80,000 rupees and gold jewelry. Last December, Parveen's mother died and her father and brothers changed their minds about the marriage, Iqbal said. The family decided Parveen, who came from a village in Punjab, should marry a cousin, police said. Parveen, 25, and Iqbal eloped and were married January 7 in a court ceremony. He said she liked the color white and that she was a "beautiful and good wife." "We were happy," he said, though they were constantly worried about their safety. "She loved us," said Aurengzeb, Parveen's stepson. "She always made the most delicious meat stew for us." The marriage enraged her family, Iqbal said, and they demanded he pay them 100,000 rupees (about $1,000) to let the couple stay alive. Iqbal, a farmer in the village in Jurranwala, Punjab, didn't have the money. The family had challenged Parveen's marriage to Iqbal in the courts, accusing him of abducting her. The attack took place Tuesday as she was on her way from her lawyer's office to the high court in Lahore, where she was expected to make a declaration that she had married Iqbal of her own volition. "They left my office around 7:40 a.m.," the lawyer, Rai Ghulam Mustafa said. "They arrived at the main gate of the High Court around 7:45 a.m. The opposite party, the family members of Farzana Parveen, had been lying in wait for her among the cars. They suddenly attacked her, repeatedly hit her with bricks and killed her." One family member made a noose of rough cloth around her neck while her brothers smashed bricks into her skull, said Mushtaq Ahmed, a police official, citing the preliminary report on the killing. Iqbal witnessed the stoning and tried to protest but was held back. Police said they had arrested Parveen's father, whose name they gave only as Azeem. They said he had admitted to the killing and expressed no regret. Senior Police officer Umar Cheema told CNN law enforcement agents are conducting raids in areas near the village to find the other killers. Iqbal said nobody helped when the stoning began. People just stood around and watched. Farzana Bari, a human rights activist based in Islamabad, said in many cases people outside the family don't step in to protect the victim "because it's a private matter." Bari said the number of honor killings is probably much higher than studies show because many families don't report the killings, and the killers often avoid prosecution. Under an Islamic element of Pakistani law, known as the law of Diyat, the family of a victim is allowed to forgive the perpetrator, according to the human rights commission's report. So-called honor killings often originate from tribal traditions in Pakistan but are not a part of Islam. Hameed said Iqbal was on the run for several weeks after killing his first wife and eluded arrest, and those facts would be incorporated into the report on Parveen's killing.
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