Showing posts with label honor killing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honor killing. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2014

'Honor Killings" Produce Real Women Victims

If American feminists need a genuine example of women victims, they need look no further than international headlines: Pakistani Woman Stoned to Death by Family in Front of Court After Marrying for Love. The Associated Press story cited a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan report that "some 869 women were murdered in honor killings in 2013."

Punishment for these murders is light, according to a prominent Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist, who told AP "the courts either award light sentences to the attackers, or they are acquitted."