{"id":88334,"date":"2014-05-28T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=88334"},"modified":"2014-05-28T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:41:12","slug":"pregnant-pakistani-woman-stoned-to-death-by-her-family-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=88334","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by her family members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pregnant woman is beaten to death by her relatives outside a court building. Her crime? To elope with the man she loved rather than marry the groom chosen by her family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pakistan-woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88332\" alt=\"pakistan-woman\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pakistan-woman.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pakistan-woman.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pakistan-woman-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pakistan-woman-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The terrible fate of Farzana Parveen, 25, is one shared by all too many women in Pakistan and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>She was killed in the name of &#8220;honor,&#8221; on the grounds her actions had brought shame on her family.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report published in April by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrcp-web.org\/hrcpweb\/report14\/AR2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">869 women in the country were the victims of honor killings last year.<\/a> And activists say the true number may be much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Parveen&#8217;s brutal killing is all the more shocking because it was so public.<\/p>\n<p>She was beaten to death with bricks close to the high court in the eastern city of Lahore by a group of about 20 people, including her brothers, father and cousin, police said.<\/p>\n<p>So-called honor killings often originate from tribal traditions in Pakistan, but are not a part of Islam. Although they&#8217;re common in rural areas, Tuesday&#8217;s attack in a public area of a big city was unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pregnant woman is beaten to death by her relatives outside a court building. Her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":88332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}