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Honour killing: pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by her family


Lahore, May 27, 2014
First Published: 20:36 IST(27/5/2014)
Last Updated: 08:07 IST(28/5/2014)


In an apparent honour killing, a 25-year-old pregnant woman was on Tuesday brutally beaten and stoned to death outside the high court in Lahore by her father and brothers for marrying the man of her choice.


Police said Farzana Parveen, resident of Faisalabad, had married Mohammad Iqbal of Jaranwala a few months ago against the wishes of her family.

The incident happened as the couple reached the court premises to record Farzana's statement to defend her husband against allegations by her family that he kidnapped her and forced her to marry him.

Initially, the family members fired shots in the air and tried to snatch her from Iqbal.

Mohammad Iqbal sits next to his wife Farzana's body, who was killed by family members, in an ambulance outside of a morgue in Lahore. (Reuters)

After failing in their attempt, nearly 20 members of her family, including her father and brothers, attacked the couple with sticks and bricks before a crowd of onlookers in front of the high court of Lahore, said police official Naseem Butt.

Farzana, who was three-months pregnant, died while her husband managed to escape.

Police arrested Farzana's father but her brothers fled from the scene, The News International reported.

Police on information reaching the spot sent the body for autopsy and registered a case after a complaint of the victim's husband.

Around 900 women were killed in Pakistan last by their families in honour killings, according to Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a private organisation.
 
The media really should relabel these murders as something different than honour killings.
 
Galvin's Shinpads - 28/5/2014 15:20

I always feel pretty helpless when I read about these stonings.

How sheer hatred can take over one's dignity and mindset.
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It makes me want to be sick; what a digusting awful way to die - at the hands of your own family and friends - with all the aid we give these countries and where we elsewhere attach 'human rights' strings, why are we so afraid to set out our demands for string legislation and penalties for this sort of degarding behaviour ...(prison sentences for thso convicted are notoriusly light):



LAHORE - The husband of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was beaten to death outside Lahore's High Court for marrying against her family's wishes vowed Wednesday to fight for justice.

Farzana Parveen, 25, was attacked outside Lahore's grand high court building by more than two dozen brick-wielding attackers including her brother and father, who has been arrested, police said.

Three-months pregnant Parveen, whom police earlier identified as 'Farzana Iqbal', had gone to testify in defence of her husband Muhammad Iqbal -- who was accused by her relatives of kidnapping her and forcing her into the marriage.

Speaking by telephone from his home village of Jaranwala where he had gone to bury Parveen earlier that day, Iqbal said: "We demand justice. We were being threatened since we got married."

On Tuesday as we were going to court from our lawyer's office almost 30 people attacked us, including her father, brothers and cousins.
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The 45-year-old said he and his wife had survived a previous attack during the first hearing of the case on May 12.

"On Tuesday as we were going to court from our lawyer's office almost 30 people attacked us, including her father, brothers and cousins," he said.

The group of 10 or so people accompanying him were overwhelmed by the suddenness of the attack and fled in all directions, he said.

"One of her brothers shot at her but missed, then the women in their group fell upon her and her brother and father finished her off," said Iqbal.

"The most painful thing is that nobody came forward to save my wife, the police were there and hundreds of lawyers were there along with ordinary men, but they all just watched like spectators."

Police officer Mushtaq Muhammed said Parveen's father Muhammad Azeem had been detained while five others -- two brothers and three cousins -- remained at large.

Another police officer, Rana Akhtar, said police were launching raids in the Nankana Sahib district of Punjab province to arrest the accused.

Growing apathy

Despite the gruesome and public nature of the killing in Pakistan's most liberal city, media reaction has been relatively muted -- indicating what activists said was a growing apathy within society amid rising extremism.

"The court's regular resident police force was mysteriously absent from the scene, unable to take preventive action -- or to provide protection or pre-emption to this and countless other foregone and foretold dis-honour killing cases," said Tahira Abdullah, a prominent women's rights campaigner.

Feminist Samina Rehman added: "The incident occurred in front of hundreds of people but nobody stepped forward to save them because people are afraid of mob justice.

"People don't speak up because they fear that they would either be framed for blasphemy or declared un-Islamic."

Last year 869 women died in so-called "honour killings" according to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Conviction rates are very low due to Pakistan's blood-money laws which allow kin to forgive perpetrators, usually family members in such cases.

In a statement, the rights commission said Parveen's father had shown no remorse when he surrendered to the police, adding: "Such brazen actions have been encouraged by the authorities' failure to fulfil their duty to protect citizens' lives."

Iqbal, however, was undeterred.

"There are no hurdles. Each and every single individual has been named and everybody saw them so there should not be any delay in bringing the perpetrators to justice," he said.
 
'Just gutted when I hear of these things. I can never see HOW people justify doing these things to another human being. If they are criminal thugs and need teaching a lesson, ok, that may be a reason for taking strong action and defending the weak but to do things to people who are weak, innocent and helpless is just unspeakable.

People of the world WAKE UP and be decent!
 
796 babies thrown in mass burial slurry pit by Religious institute...

People of the world WAKE UP and think for yourselves!

http://www.rabble.ie/2014/05/28/the-septic-tank-full-of-secrets/
 
Did I read that the husband of the stoned woman killed his first wife in a similar way, ie murdered her and got away with it ?
 
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