A pregnant woman was stoned to death by members of her own family in front of a Pakistani high court on Tuesday, May 27. The woman, 25-year old Farzana Parveen, and her husband were on their way to the court when she was confronted by her father and relatives who were angry at her for marrying out of love. The family members initially tried to snatch her away but Parveen fought back. They then started beating her and pelting her with bricks. The father surrendered after the incident and called the murder an “honor killing.” “I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it,” Mujahid, the police investigator, quoted the father as saying. Honor killings are a feature of Islamic Pakistan’s culture, where women are murdered for causing dishonor to the family. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a private group, said in a report last month that some 869 women were murdered in honor killings in 2013.
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