Women stoned to death in Pakistan outside courtroom

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27593504

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Why? Because her family accused her husband of kidnapping her and marrying her against her will. In court she claimed that was false and that she married her husband of her own free will.

So the solution?

HER FAMILY MURDERS HER.

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I understand the 'reasoning' goes like this:

1. If the woman's been kidnapped and forcibly married, she's lost the value that her virginity would have brought to the family therefore as spoiled goods, she can be killed

2. If the woman has married someone of her own free will without her family's consent then she's disrespected the family and over-stepped the boundaries of her role and authority therefore as a willful child, she can be killed.

Either way, she was right in the shit.

What a sad state of affairs. A literal catch-22 that results in the death of someone who, really, did absolutely nothing wrong.