01 February 2007

Girl raped and paraded naked

"KARACHI: A group of Pakistani men has been accused of raping a teenaged girl and forcing her to parade naked through her village because one of her relatives eloped with a young woman from the men's family, police said yesterday.

Such attacks, known as honour crimes because they are committed in response to a perceived slight on a family's honour, are common in rural Pakistan.

Pakistan last year brought in a law introducing the death penalty for honour killings. Gang-rape is also punishable by death in Pakistan."

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http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=959082

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