2023-09-02 18:00:36
A Pakistani woman was stoned to death by relatives in Pakistan for an alleged extramarital affair. Local sources quoted by the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’ reported that the woman died at the hands of her husband, brother-in-law and a third person, who stoned her and beat her with a blunt object in the Rajanpur district and subsequently fled.
They also highlighted that two years ago the woman was subjected to two tribal rites in which she had to walk on hot coals and remain for a while with her head immersed in water to prove her innocence with respect to the accusations leveled against her for alleged infidelity.
The authorities have opened an investigation into the incident and have accused the suspects of murder, while a senior local police official stressed that the security forces have launched an operation in the area to try to arrest these three people. Pakistan amended its penal code in 2005 to prevent perpetrators of ‘honor killings’ from escaping justice by granting pardons as relatives of the victim. However, it is up to each judge to decide whether to be convicted in the case of the others.
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