Police launched an investigation.
In Pakistan, a group of unknown attacked a young Pakistani teacher, beat her and burned.
About it reports BBC News.
According to the newspaper, Maria Sadagat refused to marry the son of the owner of the school where he taught. The father of murdered woman says that the young man was among those who attacked his daughter. Police launched an investigation, the first results of which will be published in two days.
According to doctors, the woman received burns to 85% of her body, she was hospitalized, but to save her doctors failed.
BBC News reports that the so-called “honor killings” happen in Pakistan so far. For 2015 the victims were over a thousand women. In April, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the most common reasons for such killings become home disagreements, suspicions in an extramarital affair and refusal to marry.
In February, the authorities of Punjab province, where the murder occurred, he passed a law criminalizing all violence against women. However, at the same time more than 30 religious organizations — including political parties — have threatened protests if it will not be cancelled. They consider women’s rights the promotion of obscenity. At current 1980-ies of the rules, the victim’s family can pardon the culprit in exchange for money or other compensation.
And 5 may in the country there was a similar story — 16-year-old girl killed and burned for what she helped the friend to escape from the village, so that she was able to marry the beloved against the wishes of relatives. The people’s Council (Jirga, Council of elders), consisting of 15 members, decided that such behavior denigrates the honor, and handed her a death sentence.
