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Barbaric: woman stoned to death in Pakistan

Just to follow on from this point re: the police officers standing by and doing nothing - the attack did happen outside a court house and though you've read some initial denial from a police chief (hardly surprising that a police force will try to deny wrongdoing) I don't think its something that can be dismissed quite like that - it certainly does seem that they stood by/didn't intervene and seemingly now are being investigated:



http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/31/world/asia/pakistan-honor-murder/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
An anti-terrorism court? That would appear to me to be an admission that the normal court system cannot deal with honour killings.
 
An anti-terrorism court? That would appear to me to be an admission that the normal court system cannot deal with honour killings.

Yup... tis probably quite frustrating for at least some people in power over there too - I'm sure there are people in the Pakistani govt and legal profession who'd be very keen to, for example, remove their blasphemy laws but the potential for backlash is just too high... There was the case recently where someone was accused of blasphemy and no lawyer initially wanted to touch the case for fear of reprisals - the one lawyer who finally did take the case was openly threatened in court by the prosecution and later shot dead in his office.

I'd presume that attempts to change the Diyya system which seems to get abused in honour killings might also be risky business for politicians/lawyers proposing it.
 
Diyya blood money half price if you kill a woman 1/3rd if they are chiristian or jew 1/10 if they are some other religion

Although the iraninans being progressive have equalled the bloodmoney for christians

Unlucky if your a baha'i open season and no blood money needs to be paid :(
 
Or the first time the western media has bothered to report on what may be a not-uncommon practice?

...because it's been so concerned with telling us about the 85,000 rapes a year and the 650 murders in the UK, you mean...?
 

Slightly different information here saying he punched her and she fell hitting her head on the ground which caused the brain injury rather than beating her to death with a baseball bat. Still manslaughter though. Hope the cunt gets plenty of time behind bars to reflect on his stupidity and misogyny.

http://www.dw.de/germany-mourns-death-of-courageous-tugce/a-18101069
 
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